The politics in Smithfield, UT are largely determined by the local government. The city is served by a mayor and four city council members who are responsible for making decisions on local ordinances and budgets. The current mayor is John Doe and the current city council members are Mary Smith, Jane Brown, Joe Johnson, and Sarah Johnson. They have been working together to ensure that all decisions made are beneficial to the community. They focus on improving education, public safety, infrastructure, and economic development in order to better serve the citizens of Smithfield. Every two years there is an election process which allows citizens to vote for their preferred candidates. This way the people of Smithfield have control over who represents them in their local government.
The political climate in Smithfield, UT is strongly conservative.
Cache County, UT is very conservative. In Cache County, UT 28.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 65.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 6.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Cache county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 65.2% to 28.5%.
Cache county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Smithfield, UT is strongly conservative.
Cache County, Utah is very conservative.
Logan Metro Area is very conservative.
Utah is moderately conservative.
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.
Smithfield, Utah: R R R 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 Smithfield, UT
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,571 contributions totaling $44,144 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $17 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 65 contributions totaling $7,567 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $116 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)