Marquette, Michigan is a city with a strong sense of community pride. The citizens of Marquette take part in politics at both the local and state level to ensure their voices are heard and their concerns addressed. Marquette has several elected officials who represent the city on the county and state levels. These officials include Senators Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters, Representatives Jack Bergman, John Moolenaar, Sara Cambensy and Triston Cole, State Representative Greg Markkanen, Circuit Court Judge Thomas Solka, Prosecuting Attorney Matt Wiese, Chief of Police Blake Rieboldt, Mayor Robert Niemi, City Council Members Nick Courter, Tony Retaskie and Mary Kollmeyer. Each of these officials strive to ensure that all citizens in Marquette are respected and represented. Local elections for mayor and city council are held annually in November. Community members come together to discuss issues facing their city as well as who they believe should be elected to represent them. Through engaging conversations on hot-button topics such as infrastructure improvements or public services like schools or parks residents can make sure their interests are heard by those representing them in office.
The political climate in Marquette, MI is somewhat liberal.
Marquette County, MI is somewhat liberal. In Marquette County, MI 54.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 43.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Marquette county remained strongly Democratic, 54.5% to 43.4%.
Marquette county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Marquette, MI is somewhat liberal.
Marquette County, Michigan is somewhat liberal.
Marquette 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.
Marquette, 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 Marquette, MI
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,265 contributions totaling $174,283 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $77 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 355 contributions totaling $90,968 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $256 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)