The Harrisonburg, VA Metro Area is an area with a strong political presence. It is part of Virginia's 6th Congressional District, which is represented by Ben Cline in the United States House of Representatives. The state level representation includes two senators from the 25th Senate district, Mark Obenshain and Emmett Hanger, and four delegates from the 25th house district, Tony Wilt, Richard P. \"Dickie\" Bell, Chris Runion and Todd Gilbert. In addition to representation at the federal and state levels, this metropolitan area also has many local candidates running for office each year. These candidates often focus on issues such as education funding, economic development, public safety initiatives and infrastructure improvements.
The political climate in Harrisonburg Metro Area is somewhat conservative.
In Harrisonburg Metro Area 42.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 54.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, the Harrisonburg metro area remained strongly Republican, 54.9% to 42.9%.
The Harrisonburg metro area voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Harrisonburg Metro Area is somewhat conservative.
Virginia is somewhat 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.
Harrisonburg, Virginia: 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 Harrisonburg Metro Area
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 4,990 contributions totaling $362,310 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $73 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,382 contributions totaling $378,595 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $274 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)