Kendallville, IN is a small town located in northeastern Indiana. It is the county seat of Noble County and has a population of over 8,000 people. The local government is made up of three elected officials: mayor, clerk-treasurer, and the seven members of the Common Council. The mayor and clerk-treasurer are elected to two year terms and the Common Council members serve four year terms. With such a small population, Kendallville politics are sometimes more personal than those in larger cities. Every election season, local residents come out to vote for their preferred candidates who often represent a variety of political beliefs ranging from conservative to liberal. Local issues are often at the forefront during election season as well, with candidates representing different views on how best to address them. While elections can be divisive at times in Kendallville, they also bring together residents from different backgrounds who all share an interest in making their community better for everyone.
The political climate in Kendallville, IN is strongly conservative.
Noble County, IN is very conservative. In Noble County, IN 24.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 73.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Noble county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 73.9% to 24.2%.
Noble county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Kendallville, IN is strongly conservative.
Noble County, Indiana is very conservative.
Kendallville Metro Area is very conservative.
Indiana is somewhat 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.
Kendallville, Indiana: R 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 Kendallville, IN
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 200 contributions totaling $9,524 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $48 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 282 contributions totaling $132,420 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $470 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)