Winfield, IL is a small city located in DuPage County, IL. It is governed by an elected Mayor and six Trustees who serve overlapping four-year terms. Winfield has a long history of local politics that dates back to its founding in 1853. The current mayor is James Gaffney, who was first elected in 2017. He and the Board of Trustees work together to ensure the wellbeing of the community by providing essential services such as police protection, public works, parks and recreation, and library services. In addition to these services, Winfield also has several committees that are responsible for various aspects of local government such as budgeting, public works projects, planning and zoning decisions, and more. With the help of these committees and the hard work of Mayor Gaffney and the Board of Trustees, Winfield remains a vibrant community with an ever-changing political landscape.
The political climate in Winfield, IL is leaning liberal.
DuPage County, IL is moderately liberal. In DuPage County, IL 57.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 39.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, DuPage county remained very strongly Democratic, 57.7% to 39.7%.
DuPage county voted Democratic in the four most recent Presidential elections, after 2000 and 2004 went Republican.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Winfield, IL is leaning liberal.
DuPage County, Illinois is moderately liberal.
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin Metro Area is very liberal.
Illinois is moderately 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.
Winfield, Illinois: R r 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 Winfield, IL
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 9,655 contributions totaling $861,690 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $89 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 3,998 contributions totaling $1,848,837 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $462 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)