The Political Climate in Ottawa, OH is Strongly conservative.
Putnam County, OH is Very conservative. In Putnam County, OH 16.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 82.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Putnam county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 82.3% to 16.0%.
Putnam county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000
The BestPlaces Liberal/Conservative Index
Ottawa, OH is Strongly conservative
Putnam County, Ohio is Very conservative.
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.
Ottawa, 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 Ottawa, OH
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 29 contributions totaling $3,825 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $132 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 56 contributions totaling $9,702 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $173 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)