Powell County is a rural county in Montana, located along the Rocky Mountain Front. The county is governed by a board of commissioners and maintains a small but active political landscape. While there are no local political candidates currently running for office, residents have plenty of opportunities to get involved in politics and engage with their community through local government meetings and initiatives. Events such as town hall meetings, public forums, and grassroots campaigns are all ways that citizens can become more directly involved in the political process. Powell County also has several organizations dedicated to helping its residents better understand the issues that affect them, such as health care, education, infrastructure, and more. Through these groups and others like them, citizens can make their voices heard on important matters facing their community.
The political climate in Powell County, MT is very conservative.
In Powell County, MT 23.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 74.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Powell county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 74.1% to 23.7%.
Powell county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Powell County, MT is very conservative.
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Montana is moderately 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.
Powell, Montana: 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 Powell County, MT
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 718 contributions totaling $57,237 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $80 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 88 contributions totaling $44,239 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $503 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)