Middletown, Ohio, located in Butler County, has an active and engaged government. The city is governed by a mayor-council system of government that consists of the mayor and six council members elected to four-year terms. The city's legislative body is known as the Middletown City Council and is responsible for enacting laws and ordinances related to the governance of the city. Additionally, the mayor serves as Middletown's executive officer with responsibility for overseeing all city departments and executing all laws and ordinances passed by City Council. The current mayor is Larry Mulligan who was first elected in 2017. This year's local elections will see two incumbent council members seeking re-election while four candidates are vying for three open seats on Council. All registered voters in Middletown can cast their ballots this November 5th to choose their local political candidates.
The political climate in Zip 45044 (Middletown, OH) is moderately conservative.
Butler County, OH is moderately conservative. In Butler County, OH 37.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 61.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Butler county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 61.3% to 37.3%.
Butler county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 45044 (Middletown, OH) is moderately conservative.
Middletown, Ohio is moderately conservative.
Butler County, Ohio is moderately conservative.
Cincinnati Metro Area is somewhat 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.
Middletown, 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 45044 (Middletown)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 449 contributions totaling $41,665 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $93 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 437 contributions totaling $153,359 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $351 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)