Bedford Park is a village in Cook County, Illinois. It has a vibrant political scene that helps shape the community's decisions and policies. The major political parties represented in Bedford Park include Republicans, Democrats, and the Green Party. Local elections take place every four years to elect officials such as village president and trustees. Each elected official serves a term of four years and plays an important role in shaping policy decisions for the village. On the national level, voters in Bedford Park are represented by Congressman Danny K Davis for Illinois' 7th District in the US House of Representatives. Issues that often come up in local politics include taxes, public safety, infrastructure improvements, environmental protection and economic development. Through meetings with residents and organizations, elected officials strive to make decisions that are best for the village as a whole.
The political climate in Bedford Park, IL is moderately liberal.
Cook County, IL is very liberal. In Cook County, IL 74.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 24.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Cook county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 74.2% to 24.0%.
Cook county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Bedford Park, IL is moderately liberal.
Cook County, Illinois is very liberal.
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin Metro Area is very liberal.
Illinois is moderately 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.
Bedford Park, Illinois: 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 Bedford Park, IL
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,968 contributions totaling $239,151 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $122 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 635 contributions totaling $108,680 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $171 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)