Clark County, Indiana is located in the southern part of the state and is home to a variety of political views. Residents of Clark County are represented by both Democrats and Republicans in the statewide legislature. The current Senator representing Clark County is Republican Mike Braun. In addition, there are several local political candidates who are running for office in 2020. These candidates include Republicans Mark Stoops and Karen Niemeier, as well as Democrats Shelli Yoder and Liz Watson. Each candidate has their own platform which focuses on issues such as job creation, health care, education, and economic development in the county. Residents of Clark County will have the opportunity to vote for these candidates during the upcoming election cycle in order to decide who will represent them at the state level.
The political climate in Clark County, IN is moderately conservative.
In Clark County, IN 39.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 58.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Clark county remained very strongly Republican, 58.0% to 39.8%.
Clark county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Clark County, IN is moderately conservative.
Louisville-Jefferson County Metro Area is leaning conservative.
Indiana is somewhat 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.
Clark, Indiana: 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 for the Democrat and I for the Independent. 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 Clark County, IN
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,730 contributions totaling $192,906 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $71 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,143 contributions totaling $769,260 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $673 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)