Maysville, Kentucky is a small city located in Mason County. The city is governed by a mayor-council form of government with the mayor being elected to four-year terms. The mayor is responsible for setting the agenda for the council meetings and working with the council to pass laws that will better the city. The Maysville City Council consists of nine members who are elected to two-year terms, with elections occurring every two years. Each year, four council members are up for re-election while the other five remain in office. Issues that come before the City Council often include zoning, economic development, public safety, infrastructure improvements and budgeting. Residents of Maysville can attend City Council meetings and have their voices heard on various issues facing the community.
The political climate in Maysville, KY is moderately conservative.
Mason County, KY is very conservative. In Mason County, KY 29.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 68.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Mason county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 68.8% to 29.7%.
Mason county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Maysville, KY is moderately conservative.
Mason County, Kentucky is very conservative.
Maysville Metro Area is very conservative.
Kentucky is strongly 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.
Maysville, Kentucky: 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 Maysville, KY
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 212 contributions totaling $37,940 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $179 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 82 contributions totaling $31,262 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $381 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)