Garrettsville, Ohio is a small town located in Portage County with a population of approximately 2,000 people. The local politics in Garrettsville center around the Mayor and Village Council. Mayor Robert Patrick has been in office for the past 15 years and works with the Village Council to ensure that all of the citizens of Garrettsville are well-served by their government. The Village Council is comprised of seven members, who are all elected by the citizens of Garrettsville to represent them and make policy decisions affecting all aspects of life in the village. Recently, there has been a great deal of discussion around how to best use the tax money collected from residents for public services and development projects within Garrettsville. The Mayor and Village Council listen carefully to resident feedback before making any decisions affecting the future of their community.
The political climate in Garrettsville, OH is somewhat conservative.
Portage County, OH is somewhat conservative. In Portage County, OH 43.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 55.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Portage county remained strongly Republican, 55.4% to 43.0%.
Portage county voted Republican in the two most recent Presidential elections, after voting Democratic in the previous four.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Garrettsville, OH is somewhat conservative.
Portage County, Ohio is somewhat conservative.
Akron Metro Area is leaning liberal.
Ohio is leaning 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.
Garrettsville, Ohio: d d d d 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 Garrettsville, OH
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 128 contributions totaling $9,475 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $74 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 60 contributions totaling $9,236 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $154 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)