Morgan County is a tight-knit community in West Virginia with a long-standing tradition of active involvement in local politics. The county’s Republican and Democratic parties work hard to ensure that important issues facing the community are addressed. Voters have the opportunity to take part in town hall meetings, forums, and debates to discuss the different candidates running for office. In addition, Morgan County has representatives at the state level who work diligently to represent their constituents. Through their work in committees, local politicians help shape public policy and ensure that the rights of citizens are respected. Overall, Morgan County prides itself on being an engaged and involved community when it comes to politics.
The political climate in Morgan County, WV is very conservative.
In Morgan County, WV 23.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 75.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Morgan county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 75.2% to 23.0%.
Morgan county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Morgan 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.
Morgan, 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 Morgan County, WV
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 463 contributions totaling $33,269 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $72 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 125 contributions totaling $25,970 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $208 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)