The Decatur, Indiana Metro Area is politically active with a variety of local and state elections taking place throughout the year. Recently, local elections have been organized to determine city council members, school board representatives, judges, and prosecutors. Local municipal and school boards are elected on a nonpartisan basis, while judicial candidates are chosen in partisan races. State-level elections are also held regularly to decide the governor, state representatives, senators, and other offices at the state level. Additionally, citizens of Decatur can participate in national elections by voting for their preferred candidates for President and other federal offices during election seasons. In all formats of electioneering, Decatur citizens have the opportunity to make their opinions heard through voting in political races that affect their lives directly.
The political climate in Decatur Metro Area is very conservative.
In Decatur Metro Area 22.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 75.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, the Decatur metro area remained overwhelmingly Republican, 75.0% to 22.7%.
The Decatur metro area voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Decatur Metro Area is very conservative.
Indiana 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.
Decatur, Indiana: 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 Decatur Metro Area
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 128 contributions totaling $7,693 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $60 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 281 contributions totaling $93,142 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $331 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)