Highland Park, MI is a small city located in the Detroit Metropolitan area. It is governed by a Mayor and six city council members who are elected to four-year terms. The current Mayor of Highland Park is Hubert Yopp, who has been in office since 2017 and was re-elected in November 2019. He and the city council strive to maintain the safety, health, stability, and quality of life for all residents. The council works together to ensure that necessary resources are allocated to initiatives such as infrastructure improvements, economic development efforts, public safety services, and community engagement programs. In addition to these programs, the local government also maintains transparency with its citizens by providing regular updates on their progress through newsletters and other publications detailing their plans and actions. Overall, Highland Park's local politics focus on improving the quality of life for all of its citizens while providing an open and transparent political environment.
The political climate in Highland Park, MI is very liberal.
Wayne County, MI is very liberal. In Wayne County, MI 68.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 30.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Wayne county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 68.3% to 30.3%.
Wayne county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Highland Park, MI is very liberal.
Wayne County, Michigan is very 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.
Highland 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 Highland Park, MI
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,708 contributions totaling $437,178 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $161 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 77 contributions totaling $18,256 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $237 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)