The Shawano, WI Metro Area is a great place to live and work. Politically, the area is represented by local, state and national leaders. At the local level, residents of Shawano are represented by their City Council and Mayor. The City Council members are elected to serve two-year terms while the Mayor is elected to serve a four-year term. On the state level, Shawano is part of Wisconsin's 8th Congressional District and is represented in Congress by Representative Mike Gallagher as well as Senators Tammy Baldwin and Ron Johnson. Nationally, residents of Shawano are represented by President Joe Biden. The people of Shawano also have the opportunity to participate in politics through various civic organizations like their League of Women Voters chapter or by volunteering with their local political parties. In this way, citizens can help shape the policies and decisions that affect their lives each day in Shawano.
The political climate in Shawano Metro Area is strongly conservative.
In Shawano Metro Area 36.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 62.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, the Shawano metro area remained overwhelmingly Republican, 62.1% to 36.6%.
The Shawano metro area voted Republican in five of the last six Presidential elections (2008 went Democratic).
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Shawano Metro Area is strongly conservative.
Wisconsin is leaning liberal.
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.
Shawano, Wisconsin: r r D 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 Shawano Metro Area
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 475 contributions totaling $76,326 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $161 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 372 contributions totaling $47,949 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $129 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)