Mason County, West Virginia is located in the Mid-Ohio Valley region and is part of the Point Pleasant Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county has a long history of political involvement, with citizens actively participating in state and national elections. The county seat is Point Pleasant, where local issues such as education, infrastructure and public safety are discussed frequently. On the national level, Mason County tends to lean towards Republican candidates but also supports Democratic offices when it comes to voting in presidential campaigns. The Mason County Commission is responsible for governing the county and makes decisions on matters that affect its citizens. As a result, residents are encouraged to exercise their right to vote in all local elections and pay close attention to what their elected officials are doing for them on both the state and local levels.
The political climate in Mason County, WV is very conservative.
In Mason County, WV 22.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 75.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Mason county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 75.8% to 22.5%.
Mason county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Mason County, WV is very conservative.
Point Pleasant Metro Area is very conservative.
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.
Mason, 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 Mason County, WV
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 134 contributions totaling $9,999 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $75 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 100 contributions totaling $18,972 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $190 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)