Homewood, IL is a small town located in the South Suburbs of Chicago, IL. It is known for its vibrant local politics, with many different political candidates vying for elected positions each year. The town has a history of hosting passionate debates and lively campaigns, often focused on issues that are important to the citizens of Homewood. These issues generally include public safety, education quality, infrastructure improvement projects such as road repairs, and community development initiatives. Local elections bring new faces to the scene as well as long-standing politicians who have served the people of Homewood for many years. Together they all work together to ensure that Homewood remains a safe, prosperous place to live and work.
The political climate in Homewood, 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
Homewood, 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.
Homewood, 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 Homewood, IL
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 10,884 contributions totaling $942,737 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $87 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 678 contributions totaling $101,207 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $149 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)