Lucas County, OH is located in Northwest Ohio and is home to approximately 437,000 people. The county is part of the Toledo metropolitan area and is governed by a county board of commissioners. The board consists of three members who are elected by the citizens every four years. Currently, the board consists of Pete Gerken as President, Carol Contrada as Vice-President, and Tina Skeldon Wozniak as Commissioner. All three members have served since 2019; however, this year there will be local elections for two of the positions in order to fill their terms. Candidates from both major political parties are running for these positions. It is expected that local voters will have an opportunity to make their decisions about who they want to lead Lucas County during this election cycle.
The political climate in Lucas County, OH is moderately liberal.
In Lucas County, OH 57.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 40.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Lucas county remained very strongly Democratic, 57.4% to 40.7%.
Lucas county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Lucas County, OH is moderately liberal.
Toledo Metro Area is leaning 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.
Lucas, 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 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 Lucas County, OH
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 12,953 contributions totaling $1,094,486 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $85 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 3,540 contributions totaling $1,367,740 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $386 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)