The West Plains, MO Metro Area is a vibrant community with an active political scene. The area comprises several townships, cities, and neighborhoods that are all engaged in the political process. Voters throughout the region have consistently shown up to vote in local, state, and national elections. At the local level, residents of West Plains can vote for members of their city council or school board. At the state level, they have access to representatives from both Missouri's House and Senate as well as various county offices. In addition, important local issues such as taxes, infrastructure projects, jobs programs and more are debated in town halls across the region. With these issues at stake, it is important that citizens remain informed about what's happening in their community and make sure their voices are heard at the ballot box when it comes time to cast their vote.
The political climate in West Plains Metro Area is very conservative.
In West Plains Metro Area 17.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 81.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, the West Plains metro area remained overwhelmingly Republican, 81.3% to 17.2%.
The West Plains metro area voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
West Plains Metro Area is very conservative.
Missouri is somewhat 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.
West Plains, Missouri: 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 four elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in West Plains Metro Area
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,150 contributions totaling $123,894 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $108 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 316 contributions totaling $70,464 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $223 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)