Libby, Montana is a small town located in Lincoln County that has a population of 2,646 according to the 2010 U.S. census. The town includes an active political environment with many local candidates running for government office. The current mayor of Libby is Robert J. “Bob” Park, who was elected in November 2018 and took office in January 2019. In addition to the mayor, there are two city council members who serve as representatives for different districts within Libby: Lolita Tipton, who represents District 1, and Devin Hodges, who represents District 2. Both were elected at the same time as Mayor Park in 2018 and have been serving their terms since then. While there are no major political parties that represent Libby residents specifically, both Tipton and Hodges identify as Republicans while Park has no party affiliation. Despite its small size, it's clear that politics plays an important role in Libby's local government and community life.
The political climate in Zip 59923 (Libby, MT) is very conservative.
Lincoln County, MT is very conservative. In Lincoln County, MT 24.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 73.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Lincoln county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 73.8% to 24.1%.
Lincoln county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 59923 (Libby, MT) is very conservative.
Libby, Montana is very conservative.
Lincoln County, Montana is very conservative.
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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.
Libby, 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 59923 (Libby)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 828 contributions totaling $44,646 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $54 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 145 contributions totaling $13,646 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $94 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)