Whitehall, MT is a small rural town located in Montana's Jefferson County. Despite its small size, the town is highly engaged politically. Every November residents vote for their local representatives to serve in state and county offices. These offices include a county commissioner, sheriff, attorney, clerk of court, treasurer and surveyor. Each year candidates from both major political parties compete for these positions in hopes of representing the people of Whitehall. In addition to these local elections, citizens often take part in higher-level regional and national elections as well. Whitehall has also become increasingly engaged with politics on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. Residents regularly post about issues they care about and share information about current events that affect their lives within the community.
The political climate in Zip 59759 (Whitehall, MT) is strongly conservative.
Jefferson County, MT is very conservative. In Jefferson County, MT 32.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 65.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Jefferson county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 65.6% to 32.2%.
Jefferson county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 59759 (Whitehall, MT) is strongly conservative.
Whitehall, Montana is strongly conservative.
Jefferson County, Montana is very conservative.
Helena Metro Area is somewhat conservative.
Montana is moderately 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.
Whitehall, Montana: 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 three elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in zip 59759 (Whitehall)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 273 contributions totaling $10,427 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $38 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 72 contributions totaling $8,752 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $122 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)