Goshen, IN is a small city with a population of 33,000 situated in Elkhart County. The city is governed by an elected mayor and city council. The current mayor, Jeremy Stutsman, has been serving since 2016 and was re-elected to another term in 2020. The city council consists of seven members who are all elected at large by the citizens of Goshen. Each term for the Mayor and City Council members is four years. At the local level, Goshen residents can actively participate in the political process every two years by voting for their preferred candidates in elections. Additionally, the city's government website allows residents to stay up-to-date on current issues being discussed by the City Council and offers ways for citizens to engage in local politics through email alerts and public comment forms.
The political climate in Goshen, IN is somewhat conservative.
Elkhart County, IN is strongly conservative. In Elkhart County, IN 35.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 62.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Elkhart county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 62.9% to 35.0%.
Elkhart county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Goshen, IN is somewhat conservative.
Elkhart County, Indiana is strongly conservative.
Elkhart-Goshen Metro Area is strongly conservative.
Indiana is somewhat 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.
Goshen, Indiana: 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 if the Democratic Party candidate won and I if the Independent Party candidate won. 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 Goshen, IN
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 6,979 contributions totaling $467,137 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $67 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 2,175 contributions totaling $876,816 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $403 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)