Ellicott City, MD is a vibrant and diverse community in Howard County. Politically, the town is fairly evenly split between Republicans and Democrats. The local election for 2020 saw both parties vying for key positions in the county government. Local candidates included incumbent Republican Liz Walsh for County Executive, incumbent Democrat Calvin Ball for County Council Chair, and Democrat Courtney Watson for State Senate. Each candidate campaigned hard to earn the support of Ellicott City’s residents, making promises to bring more jobs to the area and improve education and infrastructure. Ultimately, Liz Walsh was reelected as County Executive while Calvin Ball retained his seat on the council and Courtney Watson was elected to represent Ellicott City in the State Senate. With a strong mix of Republicans and Democrats in power, it is likely that there will be an increased focus on issues like job creation in Ellicott City over the next few years.
The political climate in Zip 21042 (Ellicott City, MD) is moderately liberal.
Howard County, MD is very liberal. In Howard County, MD 70.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 26.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Howard county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 70.7% to 26.4%.
Howard county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 21042 (Ellicott City, MD) is moderately liberal.
Ellicott City, Maryland is moderately liberal.
Howard County, Maryland is very liberal.
Baltimore-Columbia-Towson Metro Area is strongly liberal.
Maryland is very 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.
Ellicott City, Maryland: d 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 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 21042 (Ellicott City)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 4,101 contributions totaling $696,884 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $170 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 812 contributions totaling $335,383 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $413 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)