26750 Piedmont, West Virginia is a small rural town with about 800 citizens. The local politics in the town are managed by the mayor, who is elected by the citizens of 26750 Piedmont. Currently, Mayor Owen James holds office and has served since 2017. In addition to the mayor, Piedmont also has three city council members that help oversee local decisions. These individuals are elected at large by all the citizens of 26750 Piedmont and provide important guidance to the mayor on issues such as budgeting, public safety and infrastructure development. The current city council members are Dan Johnson, John Amick, and Ruth Smith-Coleman. All three have held their positions since 2018 and bring a wealth of knowledge about community issues to their roles on the city council.
The political climate in Zip 26750 (Piedmont, WV) is strongly conservative.
Mineral County, WV is very conservative. In Mineral County, WV 20.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 78.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Mineral county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 78.0% to 20.7%.
Mineral county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 26750 (Piedmont, WV) is strongly conservative.
Piedmont, West Virginia is strongly conservative.
Mineral County, West Virginia is very conservative.
Cumberland 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.
Piedmont, 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 26750 (Piedmont)
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)