Politics & Voting in Hood River Metro Area, Oregon

The Political Climate in Hood River Metro Area is Moderately liberal.

In Hood River Metro Area 59.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 30.0% voted Republican, and the remaining 10.3% voted Independent.

The Hood River metro area voted Democratic in the previous five Presidential elections.
In the last Presidential election, the Hood River metro area remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 59.7% to 30.0%

The BestPlaces Liberal/Conservative Index

Hood River Metro Area is Moderately liberal

Oregon is Moderately liberal.

VoteWord™

Displaying 16 years of Presidential voting, visualized in one word.

Hood River, Oregon: d D D D D

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 candidate won, D for the Democrat and I for the Independent. The five elections (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016) would be expressed as five-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 five elections the state has been closely contested, voting narrowly for the Republican candidate in 2016 after voting Democratic in 2008 and 2012. Virginia (r r d d d) has voted narrowly Democratic in the last three elections.

Individual Campaign Contributions in Hood River Metro Area

In the last 4 years (2015-2018), there were 2,644 contributions totaling $203,387 to Democratic and liberal campaigns, averaging $77 per contribution.

In the last 4 years, there were 346 contributions totaling $64,862 to Republican and conservative campaigns, averaging $187 per contribution.

(source: Federal Election Commission)