Hartford Township in Michigan is a vibrant community with a variety of local politics. The town is served by a city council, which is composed of five members that are elected at a two-year interval. All the members must be registered to vote in Hartford Township and must abide by the city’s charter laws. Each year, things such as budgeting, public safety, and infrastructure projects are discussed and voted upon by these representatives. Local political candidates for the City Council positions come from within the community and they campaign for office based on their experience and platforms. Hartford Township also has an active mayoral race every two years that helps keep local policy makers accountable to its citizens. Through these processes, Hartford Township residents are able to shape their local government and have a say in how their community is run.
The political climate in Hartford township, MI is somewhat conservative.
Van Buren County, MI is somewhat conservative. In Van Buren County, MI 42.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 55.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Van Buren county remained strongly Republican, 55.2% to 42.9%.
Van Buren county voted Republican in four of the six previous Presidential elections (2008 and 2012 went Democratic).
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Hartford township, MI is somewhat conservative.
Van Buren County, Michigan is somewhat conservative.
Kalamazoo-Portage 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.
Hartford township, Michigan: r r 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 Hartford township, MI
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 264 contributions totaling $15,185 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $58 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 95 contributions totaling $31,579 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $332 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)