Farmer City, IL is a small town located in Central Illinois. It has a tight-knit community that values its local politics and carefully chooses who will lead them. Every election season, the townspeople come together to research and discuss the qualifications and platforms of all the candidates before deciding who they believe best represented them. The candidates must have an understanding of the town's values and beliefs as well as a clear plan for improving the community. They also need to be able to connect with people from different backgrounds and create real change. Ultimately, it is up to each citizen of Farmer City, IL to decide who will represent them at city hall.
The political climate in Farmer City, IL is strongly conservative.
De Witt County, IL is very conservative. In De Witt County, IL 27.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 70.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, De Witt county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 70.1% to 27.3%.
De Witt county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Farmer City, IL is strongly conservative.
De Witt County, Illinois is very conservative.
Bloomington Metro Area is leaning conservative.
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.
Farmer City, Illinois: 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 Farmer City, IL
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 7 contributions totaling $628 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $90 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 22 contributions totaling $4,239 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $193 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)