The city of South Charleston, WV is a vibrant and diverse community with a deep-rooted history in politics. The city is currently governed by Mayor Frank Mullens, who has been in office since 2016. During his tenure, he has worked to improve the city's infrastructure and promote economic growth for residents. South Charleston is also home to numerous political organizations that are active in local politics. These include the United Citizens of South Charleston; the South Charleston Democratic party; and the West Virginia Republican party. Each organization works diligently to ensure that citizens' voices are heard in their local government. Additionally, each organization plays a role in promoting voter registration and education, as well as advocating for issues that affect the citizens of South Charleston and West Virginia more broadly.
The political climate in South Charleston, WV is leaning conservative.
Kanawha County, WV is somewhat conservative. In Kanawha County, WV 41.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 56.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Kanawha county remained strongly Republican, 56.4% to 41.8%.
Kanawha county voted Republican in the last five Presidential elections, after voting Democratic in 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
South Charleston, WV is leaning conservative.
Kanawha County, West Virginia is somewhat conservative.
Charleston Metro Area is moderately 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.
South Charleston, West Virginia: d r r 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 South Charleston, WV
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 4,390 contributions totaling $441,535 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $101 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,129 contributions totaling $650,711 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $576 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)