The city of 45806 Lima, OH is located in Allen County and is a part of the Toledo Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city has a population of around 39,000 people and is politically part of the Democratic party. Local government acts as an important component for the city’s residents, ensuring that projects like street improvement and public safety initiatives are adequately funded and managed. For instance, the City Council is responsible for developing local ordinances and managing municipal funds. Lima also has two congressional representatives from Ohio’s Third District – Marcy Kaptur (D) and Bob Latta (R), while in the statehouse there are five representatives to make up Allen County's 88th district: Kenneth Lippert (R), Robert Sprague (R), Shane Wilkin (R), Jena Powell (R) and Susan Manchester (D). Locally, voters can participate in elections to elect Mayor David Berger as well as representation on both City Council and Board of Education who will help ensure that their issues are taken into account when making decisions at a higher level of government.
The political climate in Zip 45806 (Lima, OH) is very conservative.
Allen County, OH is very conservative. In Allen County, OH 29.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 68.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Allen county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 68.8% to 29.4%.
Allen county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 45806 (Lima, OH) is very conservative.
Lima, Ohio is very conservative.
Allen County, Ohio is very conservative.
Lima Metro Area is very conservative.
Ohio is leaning 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.
Lima, Ohio: 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 45806 (Lima)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 219 contributions totaling $14,901 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $68 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 143 contributions totaling $33,058 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $231 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)