Owen County, Indiana is located in the heart of rural America and has a strong history as a farming community. It is home to a number of small towns with populations ranging from around 500 to 5,000 people. The county government consists of an elected Board of Commissioners that manage budgets and oversee the county’s services such as infrastructure repair, road maintenance, public safety, economic development and more. Local officials are voted into office during regularly scheduled elections including the Board of Commissioners itself, Sheriff, Auditor, Coroner and Treasurer. Candidates for local offices must be residents of Owen County and their campaigns are focused on issues important to county residents like job creation, economic development and environmental protection. With a long tradition of civic engagement in Owen County politics, citizens take great pride in electing individuals who will represent their best interests.
The political climate in Owen County, IN is very conservative.
In Owen County, IN 24.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 73.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Owen county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 73.5% to 24.4%.
Owen county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Owen County, IN is very conservative.
Bloomington Metro Area is moderately 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.
Owen, 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 Owen County, IN
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 273 contributions totaling $23,326 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $85 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 192 contributions totaling $31,854 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $166 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)