Hazel Park, Michigan is a small city located in Oakland County. It is governed by a mayor and six-member City Council elected on a non-partisan basis. The City Council sets policies, adopts ordinances and appoints citizens to advisory boards. This past year, the City Council enacted a number of initiatives to make Hazel Park more sustainable and provided additional support for local businesses through improved infrastructure and increased tax abatements. They also implemented several measures to address crime in the area. These included investing in new technology for police officers, increasing public safety awareness campaigns and providing additional funding for youth recreation programs. The political climate in Hazel Park is very positive and active, with a strong sense of community pride and involvement from its citizens.
The political climate in Hazel Park, MI is somewhat 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
Hazel Park, MI is somewhat 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.
Hazel Park, 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 Hazel Park, MI
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,441 contributions totaling $193,912 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $79 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 12 contributions totaling $6,148 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $512 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)