Taneytown, Maryland is a small town located in northern Carroll County. Despite its small size, Taneytown has a vibrant political culture that is driven by local residents interested in making their government work for them. The town is represented in the Maryland State House of Delegates by Republican Haven Shoemaker and Democrat Susan Krebs, both of whom have been serving since 2019. Additionally, Taneytown's mayor is Bradley Wantz and he has been serving since 2015. Taneytown has several city council members who are all elected by the citizens in the town every two years. These council members work together to ensure that the needs of citizens are met while also keeping taxes at a reasonable level. Furthermore, Taneytown offers plenty of ways for people to get involved in politics such as attending city council meetings or volunteering with any number of organizations active within the town.
The political climate in Zip 21787 (Taneytown, MD) is moderately conservative.
Carroll County, MD is strongly conservative. In Carroll County, MD 36.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 60.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 3.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Carroll county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 60.0% to 36.3%.
Carroll county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 21787 (Taneytown, MD) is moderately conservative.
Taneytown, Maryland is moderately conservative.
Carroll County, Maryland is strongly conservative.
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.
Taneytown, Maryland: 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 21787 (Taneytown)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 67 contributions totaling $4,766 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $71 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 94 contributions totaling $10,646 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $113 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)