Novi, Michigan is a small city located in Oakland County with a population of about 55,000 people. The mayor of Novi is Bob Gatt who has been in office since 2013 and was elected to another term in 2019. Novi residents are served by six city council members and a City Clerk. The city council meets regularly to discuss local issues and develop policy for the betterment of the community. Additionally, Novi has an active political scene with numerous campaigns each election season. These campaigns seek to engage voters on topics such as public safety, economic development, transportation improvements, and environmental protection. In recent years, citizens have become increasingly involved in politics through attending local candidate forums and participating in protests or demonstrations around important issues facing the city.
The political climate in Novi, 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
Novi, 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.
Novi, 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 Novi, MI
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 4,115 contributions totaling $712,906 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $173 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,382 contributions totaling $504,262 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $365 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)