Guernsey County is located in eastern Ohio. It is home to a population of just over 40,000 people. The county seat is Cambridge, and the county government consists of three commissioners who are elected on a nonpartisan ballot to serve four-year terms. The commissioners appoint a county administrator who oversees the day-to-day operations of the county’s departments. Guernsey County also has an elected sheriff and prosecutor, along with other elected officials such as the treasurer, recorder, engineer, auditor, and clerk of courts. These offices are responsible for facilitating elections within the county and providing services related to tax collection and land records. Guernsey County residents have access to many state representatives from both the Republican and Democratic parties in order to voice their concerns on local matters. In addition to these representatives, Guernsey County citizens also have access to federal representatives from both political parties to address any larger issues at hand.
The political climate in Guernsey County, OH is very conservative.
In Guernsey County, OH 25.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 73.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Guernsey county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 73.4% to 25.1%.
Guernsey county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Guernsey County, OH is very conservative.
Cambridge Metro Area is very conservative.
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.
Guernsey, 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 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 Guernsey County, OH
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 453 contributions totaling $27,409 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $61 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 267 contributions totaling $193,052 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $723 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)