Farmington Hills, Michigan is a vibrant community located in Oakland County. It is known for its excellent schools, diverse population, and vibrant culture. Politically, the city has been represented by various candidates from both major political parties in recent years. In state government, the city's current representative is Democrat Mari Manoogian, who was elected to the Michigan House of Representatives in 2018. At the federal level, Farmington Hills is represented by Gary Peters, a Democrat serving as one of Michigan's two U.S. Senators since 2015. Locally, Farmington Hills has a mayor-council system of government where each year residents elect seven councilmembers and a mayor to serve on its City Council and Executive Committee respectively. Additionally, Farmington Hills also utilizes an at-large voting system that allows all citizens to vote for all members of the City Council regardless of their district boundaries. With its active citizens and engaged candidates from both sides of the aisle, it is clear that Farmington Hills takes great pride in having thoughtful representation at all levels of government.
The political climate in Farmington Hills, MI is leaning liberal.
Oakland County, MI is somewhat liberal. In Oakland County, MI 56.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 42.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Oakland county remained strongly Democratic, 56.2% to 42.2%.
Oakland county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Farmington Hills, MI is leaning liberal.
Oakland County, Michigan is somewhat liberal.
Detroit-Warren-Dearborn Metro Area is somewhat liberal.
Michigan 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.
Farmington Hills, Michigan: d d D d d 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 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 Farmington Hills, MI
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 18,124 contributions totaling $3,705,706 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $204 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 3,278 contributions totaling $3,708,730 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $1,131 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)