The city of Trotwood, Ohio in zip code 45426 is a lively and diverse community. While the city is not known for its political landscape, it does have an active political culture. The city holds regular elections in which local citizens are encouraged to participate by voting for the candidates that best represent their interests. Every two years, Trotwood residents come together to select a mayor and other elected officials who will help shape the future of their community. In addition, Trotwood is represented in the state government by Senator Sherrod Brown and House Representatives Marcia Fudge and Mike Turner. With such a diverse population, it's no surprise that politics are important to Trotwood residents and they take an involved role in deciding who will lead them.
The political climate in Zip 45426 (Trotwood, OH) is leaning liberal.
Montgomery County, OH is leaning liberal. In Montgomery County, OH 50.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 47.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Montgomery county flipped narrowly Democratic, 50.2% to 47.9%.
Montgomery county flipped back to Democratic in the most recent Presidential election, after voting Republican in 2016.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 45426 (Trotwood, OH) is leaning liberal.
Trotwood, Ohio is leaning liberal.
Montgomery County, Ohio is leaning liberal.
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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.
Trotwood, Ohio: d d d d r d
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 45426 (Trotwood)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 151 contributions totaling $10,721 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $71 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 34 contributions totaling $1,095 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $32 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)