Kettering, OH is a city located in Montgomery County with a population of 56,163. The local politics are represented by a Mayor and the members of City Council who are elected to serve four-year terms. Currently, Don Patterson serves as Mayor and seven Council Members represent each district throughout the city. The City Council works to make decisions that will benefit the local community on issues such as infrastructure development, public safety initiatives, and economic growth. With the support of the citizens of Kettering, OH, the local political representatives strive to make the city an even better place for its residents.
The political climate in Kettering, OH is leaning liberal.
Montgomery County, OH is leaning liberal. In Montgomery County, OH 50.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 47.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Montgomery county flipped narrowly Democratic, 50.2% to 47.9%.
Montgomery county flipped back to Democratic in the most recent Presidential election, after voting Republican in 2016.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Kettering, OH is leaning liberal.
Montgomery County, Ohio 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.
Kettering, Ohio: d d d d r d
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 Kettering, OH
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 10,861 contributions totaling $895,672 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $82 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 3,399 contributions totaling $1,159,288 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $341 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)