Montgomery County, Indiana is located in west-central Indiana and the county seat is Crawfordsville. The county is home to a population of around 38,000 people. Montgomery County has three townships: Brown Township, Union Township, and Wayne Township. Each township elects a trustee who serves on the Montgomery County Board. The board oversees local government operations and makes decisions on behalf of the county residents. In addition to the trustees, there are a number of other elected officials such as school board members, commissioners, sheriffs, prosecutors, assessors and surveyors. At the state level Montgomery County is part of Indiana's 4th congressional district and is represented by Republican Jim Baird in the House of Representatives. Montgomery County also sends two senators to the Indiana General Assembly; one being Republican Rodric Bray and the second being Republican Mark Messmer.
The political climate in Montgomery County, IN is very conservative.
In Montgomery County, IN 24.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 73.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Montgomery county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 73.6% to 24.5%.
Montgomery county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Montgomery County, IN is very conservative.
Crawfordsville Metro Area is very 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.
Montgomery, 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 Montgomery County, IN
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 867 contributions totaling $69,233 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $80 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 258 contributions totaling $34,385 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $133 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)