New Marshfield, OH is a small town of about 10,000 people located in the Midwest. It has a strong sense of community and civic involvement and many local residents are involved in politics. New Marshfield has an active city council that meets regularly to make decisions about the town’s budget, infrastructure, and laws. In addition, the town holds regular elections for mayor and other elected positions such as city council members, school board members, and county commissioners. Residents have the opportunity to be actively involved in selecting their representatives by attending local debates or election forums and casting their votes at polling stations on Election Day. New Marshfield also hosts a variety of grassroots political campaigns throughout the year that seek to influence policy and rally public opinion on important issues. By engaging in these activities, citizens can get involved with politics and help shape the future of their community.
The political climate in New Marshfield, OH is leaning conservative.
Athens County, OH is somewhat liberal. In Athens County, OH 56.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 41.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Athens county remained strongly Democratic, 56.6% to 41.6%.
Athens county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
New Marshfield, OH is leaning conservative.
Athens County, Ohio is somewhat liberal.
Athens 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.
New Marshfield, Ohio: D D D D D 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 New Marshfield, OH
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 4,366 contributions totaling $404,225 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $93 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 321 contributions totaling $52,382 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $163 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)