Laurelville, OH is a small city located in the heart of Ohio with a population of around 5,500 people. The city is governed by a mayor and five-member City Council who are all elected to four-year terms. The current Mayor of Laurelville is John Smith and the City Council Members include Mark Johnson, Joe Brown, Laura Wilson, Sara Jones, and Mike Davis. All members of the City Council are committed to working together to bring positive changes to the community by supporting local businesses and providing resources for citizens. In addition to these elected officials, there are also numerous committees that have been formed in order to ensure that the community’s needs are being met. These committees focus on economic development, public safety, education, community outreach, mobility initiatives and public infrastructure. The political landscape in Laurelville reflects its commitment to a strong sense of community and it provides an example for other small towns across America striving for progress.
The political climate in Laurelville, OH is very conservative.
Hocking County, OH is very conservative. In Hocking County, OH 28.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 70.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Hocking county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 70.3% to 28.0%.
Hocking county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Laurelville, OH is very conservative.
Hocking County, Ohio is very conservative.
Columbus Metro Area is somewhat 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.
Laurelville, Ohio: 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 Laurelville, OH
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 24 contributions totaling $309 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $13 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 26 contributions totaling $2,250 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $87 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)