Huntington, WV is located in the heart of the Tri-State Area and has a rich political history. The city is part of the 3rd congressional district, and is represented by Congressman Evan Jenkins. At the local level, Huntington has a mayor-council form of government and is currently led by Mayor Steve Williams. In recent years Huntington has had to contend with important issues such as job growth and revitalization of its downtown area. In addition to its economic challenges, Huntington also faces issues such as its high poverty rate and lack of access to quality education for underserved communities. Huntington's residents are passionate about making their city a better place, and turn out en masse for elections every year to make sure their voices are heard.
The political climate in Huntington, WV is leaning conservative.
Cabell County, WV is moderately conservative. In Cabell County, WV 40.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 58.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Cabell county remained very strongly Republican, 58.1% to 40.1%.
Cabell county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Huntington, WV is leaning conservative.
Cabell County, West Virginia is moderately conservative.
Huntington-Ashland Metro Area is very conservative.
West Virginia is very 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.
Huntington, West Virginia: 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 Huntington, WV
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 5,479 contributions totaling $661,036 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $121 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 3,949 contributions totaling $2,121,816 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $537 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)