The city of Youngstown, OH is located in the Mahoning Valley region of northeast Ohio. It has an estimated population of 64,279 people and covers 36.1 square miles. Politically, it is served by the local government of the City of Youngstown which consists of a mayor-council based system. The mayor is the executive branch while the city council acts as a legislative body to create and maintain laws and ordinances for the city. Additionally, there are county commissioners in various districts and state representatives who represent the citizens at their respective levels of government. On the national level, Youngstown is represented by Congressman Tim Ryan in Ohio's 13th Congressional District. As such, politics in 44505 Youngstown, OH are impacted both locally and nationally depending on each candidate's political platform and stance on various issues affecting the city.
The political climate in Zip 44505 (Youngstown, OH) is leaning liberal.
Mahoning County, OH is leaning conservative. In Mahoning County, OH 48.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 50.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Mahoning county flipped narrowly Republican, 50.3% to 48.4%.
Mahoning county flipped Republican afer voting Democratic in the previous five Presidential elections.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 44505 (Youngstown, OH) is leaning liberal.
Youngstown, Ohio is leaning liberal.
Mahoning County, Ohio is leaning conservative.
Youngstown-Warren-Boardman 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.
Youngstown, Ohio: D D D D d 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 44505 (Youngstown)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 824 contributions totaling $77,623 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $94 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 75 contributions totaling $19,033 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $254 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)