The Kendallville Metro Area is home to a thriving political landscape with numerous opportunities for its citizens to get involved. Participation in local politics is encouraged and can be done through voting, attending city council meetings, attending public forums, and other forms of civic engagement. Local political candidates are often elected on the basis of their platforms and their views on important issues which impact the local community. Issues that are popularly discussed include education, economic development, infrastructure, public safety, and environmental protection. Through the support of local voters, candidates who best represent the interests of the Kendallville Metro Area are able to become successful in their campaigns and serve the community in a meaningful way.
The political climate in Kendallville Metro Area is very conservative.
In Kendallville Metro Area 24.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 73.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, the Kendallville metro area remained overwhelmingly Republican, 73.9% to 24.2%.
The Kendallville metro area voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Kendallville 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.
Kendallville, 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 Kendallville Metro Area
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 241 contributions totaling $17,806 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $74 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 338 contributions totaling $104,596 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $309 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)