Washougal, Washington is a small city in Clark County located along the Columbia River. The city is governed by a mayor-council system and features five council members that make up the Washougal City Council. The current Mayor is Molly Coston, who was elected in 2018. The five council members are Mona Kostello, Bill Reynolds, Micah Appelquist, Mike Carpenter, and Chris Martin. They are all committed to making Washougal a better place for its citizens and they work towards creating progressive policies that promote economic growth and provide more opportunities for the community. Additionally, Washougal has an active Citizens Advisory Group who advises the city on issues like public safety, transportation, land use planning and budgeting. The political climate in Washougal is one of mutual respect and collaboration between citizens and their local government officials.
The political climate in Washougal, WA is leaning conservative.
Clark County, WA is leaning liberal. In Clark County, WA 51.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 45.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 3.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Clark county remained moderately Democratic, 51.0% to 45.9%.
Clark county voted Democratic in the four most recent Presidential elections, after 2000 and 2004 went Republican.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Washougal, WA is leaning conservative.
Clark County, Washington is leaning liberal.
Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro Metro Area is strongly liberal.
Washington is moderately liberal.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index is based on recent voting in national elections, federal campaign contributions by local residents, and consumer personality profiles.
VoteWord™
Displaying 20 years of Presidential voting, visualized in one word.
Washougal, Washington: r r d d d d
How It Works:
Here at BestPlaces, we were looking at the voting patterns since the 2000 election and realized that we could express the results of each election as one letter. R if the Republican Party candidate won, D if the Democratic Party candidate won and I if the Independent Party candidate won. The six elections (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020) would be expressed as six-letter word (R R D R R).
Then we went a little further and added the dimension of magnitude. If the difference of victory was greater than 10 percent, the letter is upper case, and lower case if the difference was less than 10 percent. This allows us to see interesting voting patterns at just a glance.
Here's the VoteWord for Iowa d r d d r. In the last six elections the state has been closely contested, voting narrowly for the Republican Party candidate in 2016 and 2020 after voting for the Democratic Party in 2008 and 2012. Virginia (r r d d d D) has voted for the Democratic Party in the last three elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in Washougal, WA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 5,944 contributions totaling $619,302 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $104 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,199 contributions totaling $1,713,145 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $1,429 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)