Phillips, Maine is a small rural town located in Franklin County. With roughly 1000 residents, this town has a tight-knit community that is active in local politics. Voters in Phillips are passionate about the issues affecting their community and have an important role to play in determining the policies and decisions made by local government. The local political landscape consists of several candidates from both major parties who are vying for various positions such as mayor, councilmember, and board of selectman. Each candidate brings their own set of ideas and opinions on how to improve the town and its people. Phillips citizens go to the polls every election cycle to make sure their voices are heard and that their votes count.
The political climate in Phillips, ME is somewhat conservative.
Franklin County, ME is leaning conservative. In Franklin County, ME 46.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 50.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 3.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Franklin county remained Republican, 50.3% to 46.4%.
Franklin county voted Republican in the two most recent Presidential elections, after voting Democratic in the previous four.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Phillips, ME is somewhat conservative.
Franklin County, Maine is leaning conservative.
Maine is somewhat 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.
Phillips, Maine: d D D D 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 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 Phillips, ME
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 69 contributions totaling $2,600 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $38 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 9 contributions totaling $7,500 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $833 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)