Danville, Indiana is a small town of about 8,400 located in Hendricks County. It is governed by a mayor-council government, with the mayor and seven council members elected every four years. Danville politics is generally considered to be moderate, with both Democratic and Republican candidates running for office in most elections. The town has a long history of electing individuals from both parties to office in order to ensure that all voices are represented in their local government. Recent issues on the political agenda have included infrastructure improvements, economic development initiatives, and quality of life improvement projects such as sidewalk and bike paths. All these issues are important to the residents of Danville and help shape the future of the community.
The political climate in Zip 46122 (Danville, IN) is moderately conservative.
Hendricks County, IN is strongly conservative. In Hendricks County, IN 36.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 60.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Hendricks county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 60.7% to 36.8%.
Hendricks county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 46122 (Danville, IN) is moderately conservative.
Danville, Indiana is moderately conservative.
Hendricks County, Indiana is strongly conservative.
Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson Metro Area is leaning liberal.
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.
Danville, 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 three elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in zip 46122 (Danville)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 142 contributions totaling $20,122 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $142 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 211 contributions totaling $28,243 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $134 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)