Moundsville, West Virginia is a small town located in Marshall County and is home to just over 4,000 people. The town is represented by a number of elected officials who serve at the local, state, and national levels of government. At the local level, Moundsville residents are served by a mayor-council form of government. The mayor is elected for a four-year term and serves as the executive leader of the community. He or she appoints the members of several appointed boards and commissions that shape laws and regulations that govern within Moundsville. The council members are elected for four-year terms from five wards throughout the town. On the state-level, all Marshall County residents are represented in the West Virginia House of Delegates and Senate by two delegates and one senator respectively. These legislators serve two year terms and work to ensure all county residents’ rights are represented on matters such as land use regulations, taxes, education funding, health care access, transportation needs, and other important issues affecting the community. Finally on the national level, all Marshall County residents are represented in Congress by Congressman Alex Mooney who was recently reelected to his third term in 2020. Through advocacy efforts with constituent service teams Congressman Mooney works to ensure Moundsville’s voices are heard in Washington D.C., while contributing to important policy decisions that affect West Virginia as a whole.
The political climate in Moundsville, WV is moderately conservative.
Marshall County, WV is very conservative. In Marshall County, WV 24.5% 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, Marshall county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 74.1% to 24.5%.
Marshall county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Moundsville, WV is moderately conservative.
Marshall County, West Virginia is very conservative.
Wheeling 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.
Moundsville, 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 Moundsville, WV
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 259 contributions totaling $21,588 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $83 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 94 contributions totaling $25,150 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $268 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)