Barbour County, WV is a rural county located in the northeast corner of the state. It has a total area of 394 square miles and is home to an estimated population of 16,637 people. The county is governed by a three-member board of commissioners who are elected from single-member districts. Each commissioner serves for a four-year term. Additionally, the county elects a sheriff, assessor, magistrate court judge and prosecuting attorney. The county seats are Philippi and Belington and there are several townships and boroughs in the area. Barbour County also has its own school system run by the Barbour County Board of Education which provides learning opportunities to students from pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. The county is represented at the state level in both the House of Delegates and Senate. Residents of Barbour County maintain strong ties to their communities as well as support local political candidates when they come up for election each year.
The political climate in Barbour County, WV is very conservative.
In Barbour County, WV 21.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 76.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Barbour county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 76.6% to 21.8%.
Barbour county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Barbour 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.
Barbour, 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 Barbour County, WV
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 120 contributions totaling $8,668 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $72 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 64 contributions totaling $13,472 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $211 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)