Boone County, Indiana is a thriving community with an engaged and active political landscape. The county has several local political offices, including Sheriff, Prosecuting Attorney, Auditor, Recorder, Treasurer and the three County Commissioners. Local elections are held in May each year for all of these positions. The candidates running for any office vary from year to year as citizens of Boone County come forward to serve their community in this capacity. All residents of the county are encouraged to stay informed on local politics and to exercise their rights to vote whenever possible.
The political climate in Boone County, IN is moderately conservative.
In Boone County, IN 39.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 57.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Boone county remained very strongly Republican, 57.8% to 39.4%.
Boone county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Boone County, IN is moderately conservative.
Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson Metro Area is leaning liberal.
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.
Boone, 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 Boone County, IN
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,551 contributions totaling $390,049 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $153 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,783 contributions totaling $1,101,277 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $618 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)