Gassaway, West Virginia is a small town located in Braxton County in the Appalachian Mountains. While it is small, Gassaway has an active and vibrant political landscape. The town has a mayor and a city council made up of seven members who work together to make decisions that benefit the local community. Each fall citizens have the opportunity to vote for their local representatives in the election for mayor and city council members. Issues such as infrastructure improvement, tax structure, emergency response teams, and public services are all discussed by both elected officials and citizens at public meetings held throughout the year. With passionate citizens from both sides of the political spectrum engaging in spirited debates over various policy issues, Gassaway's political scene is always bustling with activity.
The political climate in Gassaway, WV is strongly conservative.
Braxton County, WV is very conservative. In Braxton County, WV 25.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 72.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Braxton county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 72.7% to 25.7%.
Braxton county voted Republican in three most recent Presidential elections, after voting Democratic in the previous three.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Gassaway, WV is strongly conservative.
Braxton County, West Virginia is very conservative.
West Virginia is very conservative.
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.
Gassaway, West Virginia: d d d R R R
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 Gassaway, WV
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 31 contributions totaling $972 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $31 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 136 contributions totaling $15,386 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $113 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)