Gilmer County, West Virginia is a small county located in the north-central region of the state. The county seat is Glenville, and the total population of Gilmer County is 5,645 according to the 2019 census. Local politics in Gilmer County are managed by an elected five-member board of commissioners that handle important issues such as budgeting, taxation, land use regulations and other services. In addition to the board of commissioners, local political candidates that are running for office in Gilmer must have their names listed with the West Virginia Secretary of State. These candidates face off in election campaigns where residents vote for which candidate they believe will do best representing their interests. Issues that are particularly important to people living in Gilmer include economic development, public safety, education and healthcare. As a result of these issues being so important to Gilmiers, local elections tend to be closely contested races between candidates from both major parties.
The political climate in Gilmer County, WV is very conservative.
In Gilmer County, WV 22.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 75.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Gilmer county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 75.6% to 22.5%.
Gilmer county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Gilmer 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.
Gilmer, 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 Gilmer County, WV
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,198 contributions totaling $37,541 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $31 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 25 contributions totaling $8,048 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $322 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)