Roane County, West Virginia has a strong political presence with dedicated citizens and local leaders. The county is represented in the West Virginia House of Delegates by Del. Larry Kump and Del. Amanda Pasdon as well as in the West Virginia Senate by Senators Charles Trump and Bill Hamilton. Roane County also has a Board of Supervisors which is made up of five members elected from each of the five districts in the county. These local government officials work hard to ensure that the needs of their constituents are met and that Roane County remains competitive in the state legislature. They are responsible for making sure that their constituents have access to quality public services, including education, healthcare, transportation, and safety resources.
The political climate in Roane County, WV is very conservative.
In Roane County, WV 25.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 73.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Roane county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 73.1% to 25.2%.
Roane county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Roane County, WV is very conservative.
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West Virginia is very 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.
Roane, West 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 Roane County, WV
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 35 contributions totaling $3,809 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $109 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 84 contributions totaling $35,904 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $427 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)