La Grange, IL is a village in Cook County, located about 15 miles west of downtown Chicago. The village is governed by a Board of Trustees, which consists of six elected members who serve four-year terms. La Grange also hosts an annual local election in April every year where residents can vote for candidates for the various positions on the board. All elections are conducted according to Illinois State Election law and the outcome is determined based on who receives the most votes. Overall, La Grange has a favorable political climate that encourages civic engagement and participation from its residents.
The political climate in La Grange, 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
La Grange, 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.
La Grange, 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 La Grange, IL
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 4,369 contributions totaling $645,806 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $148 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 849 contributions totaling $211,092 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $249 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)