The city of Lacarne, OH (43439) is located in Ottawa County. It is a small town with a population of just over 700 people. Politically, the city leans heavily conservative. The current mayor is Steve Mesteller who was elected in 2019 and won by a very large margin. Locally, the most popular political figure is Republican Congressman Bob Latta, who has served in the U.S House of Representatives since 2007 and was reelected in 2018 with nearly 70% of the vote. More recently, in 2020 he easily won reelection once again with over 70% of the vote. As expected, many residents also voted Republican for other statewide offices such as Governor and Attorney General. Overall, politics in 43439 Lacarne, OH are dominated by conservatives that have been successful at getting their message out to the community and winning most elections with greater than 50% margins of victory.
The political climate in Zip 43439 (Lacarne, OH) is moderately conservative.
Ottawa County, OH is moderately conservative. In Ottawa County, OH 37.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 60.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Ottawa county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 60.8% to 37.5%.
Ottawa county voted Republican in four of the six previous Presidential elections (2008 and 2012 went Democratic).
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 43439 (Lacarne, OH) is moderately conservative.
Lacarne, Ohio is moderately conservative.
Ottawa County, Ohio is moderately conservative.
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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.
Lacarne, Ohio: r r d d 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 43439 (Lacarne)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 0 contributions totaling $0 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $0 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 0 contributions totaling $0 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $0 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)