Somerset, OH is a small town located in Ohio’s Appalachian region. It is the county seat of Perry County and has a population just over 1,000 people. It has been a quiet and peaceful community for many years. The politics in Somerset are quite conservative and dominated by the Republican Party. This is due to its rural location and strong Christian values. Local elections are often fought on issues that are important to the residents such as taxation, education, public services, infrastructure, and healthcare. The local candidates are active in their campaigns and often use door-to-door canvassing as well as social media to reach out to potential voters. Many locals feel passionate about who they vote for because they stand behind their party’s ideals of fiscal responsibility and smaller government regulations.
The political climate in Somerset, OH is strongly conservative.
Perry County, OH is very conservative. In Perry County, OH 24.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 74.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Perry county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 74.1% to 24.6%.
Perry county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Somerset, OH is strongly conservative.
Perry 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.
Somerset, 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 Somerset, OH
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 71 contributions totaling $4,457 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $63 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 13 contributions totaling $5,620 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $432 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)