The Morgantown, WV Metro Area is part of Monongalia County in West Virginia and is home to a diverse political landscape. The county is represented in the United States House of Representatives by Democrat David McKinley and in the West Virginia Senate by Democrat William Ihlenfeld II and Republican Patricia Rucker. In addition, Monongalia County has six representatives in the West Virginia House of Delegates, evenly divided among Democrats and Republicans. At the local level, Morgantown is governed by a Mayor-Council form of government where citizens elect 6 council members to represent their wards on City Council as well as a mayor who serves as executive leader of the city. Local elections are held every two years on an alternating basis with national elections.
The political climate in Morgantown Metro Area is somewhat conservative.
In Morgantown Metro Area 41.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 55.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, the Morgantown metro area remained strongly Republican, 55.9% to 41.9%.
The Morgantown metro area voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Morgantown Metro Area is somewhat conservative.
West Virginia is very 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.
Morgantown, West 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 Morgantown Metro Area
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 12,283 contributions totaling $531,793 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $43 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,616 contributions totaling $960,501 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $594 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)