Westerville, Ohio is a bustling suburb of Columbus located in Franklin County. The city has a long-standing history of political involvement from both its citizens and local representatives. In recent years, the local government has become more active and progressive in both city policy and engaging with its citizens. Through various town halls, community forums, and other public events, Westerville's leadership works to ensure effective communication between the city administration and residents. Issues such as economic growth, public safety, educational funding, infrastructure improvements are topics that are discussed during these events. The current mayor of Westerville is Chris Long who was elected in 2017; he is committed to creating an open dialogue with the local community so that together they can work towards making Westerville even better than it already is.
The political climate in Westerville, OH is somewhat liberal.
Franklin County, OH is strongly liberal. In Franklin County, OH 64.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 33.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Franklin county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 64.7% to 33.4%.
Franklin county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Westerville, OH is somewhat liberal.
Franklin County, Ohio is strongly liberal.
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.
Westerville, 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 Westerville, OH
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 10,095 contributions totaling $704,678 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $70 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 2,702 contributions totaling $1,387,120 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $513 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)