Rockingham County, Virginia is located in the Shenandoah Valley and is known for its beautiful mountains, rivers and valleys. Politically, Rockingham County leans towards the Republican Party with the majority of elected officials being Republicans. The county has a five-member board of supervisors who are all Republicans and are responsible for setting the budget and making policy decisions. The current supervisor is John Massie, who was first elected in 2014. In addition to these supervisors, Rockingham County also has numerous local political offices such as sheriff, treasurer, clerk of court and more that are filled by either Republican or Democratic candidates. During election times, there is usually heated competition between the two major political parties for these positions. Ultimately, whichever party can garner more votes from Rockingham's citizens will determine which party holds local office in the county.
The political climate in Rockingham County, VA is very conservative.
In Rockingham County, VA 28.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 69.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Rockingham county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 69.3% to 28.9%.
Rockingham county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Rockingham County, VA is very conservative.
Harrisonburg Metro Area is somewhat conservative.
Virginia is somewhat 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.
Rockingham, Virginia: 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 Rockingham County, VA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,585 contributions totaling $99,043 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $62 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 592 contributions totaling $174,007 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $294 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)