Lathrup Village, MI is a small city in Oakland County with a population of around 2,500 people. Despite its size, the politics in Lathrup Village are just as important as any other city. Local elections for mayor and City Council are regularly held to make sure that the residents’ voices are heard. There are currently three candidates vying for the mayoral seat: Sarah Smith, John White, and Tom Clark. Each candidate has different platforms and views on how to best serve the citizens of Lathrup Village. It's up to the citizens to decide who will lead their town into the future!
The political climate in Lathrup Village, MI is leaning 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
Lathrup Village, MI is leaning 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.
Lathrup Village, 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 Lathrup Village, MI
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,236 contributions totaling $197,697 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $88 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 280 contributions totaling $271,562 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $970 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)