Marcellus Township is a small, rural township located in southwestern Michigan. The township is governed locally by a board of trustees who are elected to serve 4-year terms. The township is proud of its tightknit community and strives to maintain a high quality of life for all who live there. In addition to providing services such as road maintenance, water and sewage systems, and public safety, the board also works hard to ensure that the people of Marcellus Township have access to their political representatives on the state and national levels. Through hosting town hall meetings and other events, Marcellus Township’s political leaders strive to keep residents informed and engaged in local politics. As a result, the residents of Marcellus Township are well-informed about important political issues that affect them and are actively involved in shaping the future of their community.
The political climate in Marcellus township, MI is strongly conservative.
Cass County, MI is strongly conservative. In Cass County, MI 34.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 63.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Cass county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 63.6% to 34.8%.
Cass county voted Republican in five of the last six Presidential elections (2008 went Democratic).
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Marcellus township, MI is strongly conservative.
Cass County, Michigan is strongly conservative.
South Bend-Mishawaka Metro Area is leaning 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.
Marcellus township, Michigan: r R d R 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 Marcellus township, MI
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 657 contributions totaling $15,398 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $23 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 85 contributions totaling $15,805 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $186 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)