25213 Winfield is located in Putnam County, West Virginia and is a small city with a population of just over 3,700 people. The political landscape in 25213 Winfield is dominated by the Republican Party, which has held majority power for the past several decades. The city is represented at the local level by a nonpartisan City Council comprised of five members elected to four-year terms. Each member represents one of five city wards and serves as a voting member on all committees and votes on all ordinances. At the county level, Putnam County has three county commissioners who are responsible for managing county business such as overseeing budgets, distributing funds, and setting policy direction. All three county commission positions are up for election every two years and are partisan races with no party affiliation rules. On the state level, 25213 Winfield is served by two members of the West Virginia House of Delegates who are elected to two-year terms in both general and primary elections. With so many different layers of government involved in 25213 Winfield's politics, it's important to stay informed about local candidates and have an understanding of how each issue affects the community as a whole.
The political climate in Zip 25213 (Winfield, WV) is very conservative.
Putnam County, WV is very conservative. In Putnam County, WV 27.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 70.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Putnam county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 70.3% to 27.6%.
Putnam county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 25213 (Winfield, WV) is very conservative.
Winfield, West Virginia is very conservative.
Putnam County, West Virginia is very conservative.
Huntington-Ashland Metro Area is very conservative.
West Virginia is very 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.
Winfield, West Virginia: 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 25213 (Winfield)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 92 contributions totaling $12,970 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $141 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 21 contributions totaling $10,003 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $476 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)