Outagamie County is located in Wisconsin and is home to many politically engaged citizens. The county has a wide variety of political candidates from both major parties, as well as third-party candidates. Politically active residents are passionate about issues such as education, healthcare, the economy, and social justice. Local campaigns often focus on local issues that affect Outagamie County, such as job creation, taxes, infrastructure improvements, and environmental protection. Outagamie County residents can participate in the electoral process by voting for their preferred candidate in state elections or by attending local town hall meetings and hearing politicians speak firsthand about their platforms. Regardless of party affiliation or political stance, all Outagamie County residents have the opportunity to get directly involved in the political process.
The political climate in Outagamie County, WI is somewhat conservative.
In Outagamie County, WI 44.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 54.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Outagamie county remained moderately Republican, 54.0% to 44.1%.
Outagamie county voted Republican in five of the last six Presidential elections (2008 went Democratic).
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Outagamie County, WI is somewhat conservative.
Appleton Metro Area is somewhat conservative.
Wisconsin is leaning liberal.
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.
Outagamie, Wisconsin: r r D 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 Outagamie County, WI
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 5,844 contributions totaling $753,719 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $129 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 2,145 contributions totaling $1,087,205 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $507 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)