The town of Winnemucca, NV, located in Humboldt County, is a small community with a population of 7,835 as of the 2019 census. It is the county seat and its economy relies on tourism, agriculture, retail trade and freight transportation. Winnemucca is governed by a mayor and four city council members. The current mayor is Chris Hegg who was voted into office in 2018. The current City Council consists of Debra Lee-Kramer, Bob Johnson, Pete Cupp and Ray Estes. All five are working together to ensure that Winnemucca remains a safe environment to live in while also striving to create jobs and economic development for its citizens. They have made it their mission to improve infrastructure such as roads and bridges while maintaining an open dialogue with residents so that all opinions can be heard when making decisions about the town's future.
The political climate in Zip 89445 (Winnemucca, NV) is strongly conservative.
Humboldt County, NV is very conservative. In Humboldt County, NV 21.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 75.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Humboldt county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 75.6% to 21.7%.
Humboldt county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 89445 (Winnemucca, NV) is strongly conservative.
Winnemucca, Nevada is strongly conservative.
Humboldt County, Nevada is very conservative.
Winnemucca Metro Area is very conservative.
Nevada is leaning liberal.
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.
Winnemucca, Nevada: 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 89445 (Winnemucca)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 385 contributions totaling $17,970 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $47 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 167 contributions totaling $32,090 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $192 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)