Pittsfield, IL is a small town located in Pike County. The local politics of Pittsfield are run by an elected Mayor and City Council which consists of six members. The Mayor is elected for a four-year term and the Council members serve two-year terms. Each year there is an election held to select who will represent the town as its elected officials. The City Council works together to create policies and pass legislation that affects daily life for Pittsfield citizens, from approving budgets to setting tax rates. They also create laws and regulations that govern how the city operates, such as noise ordinances or parking rules. Additionally, the City Council works closely with state and federal representatives when issues affecting Pittsfield arise. This ensures that the town’s needs are heard at all levels of government.
The political climate in Pittsfield, IL is strongly conservative.
Pike County, IL is very conservative. In Pike County, IL 18.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 79.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Pike county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 79.5% to 18.6%.
Pike county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Pittsfield, IL is strongly conservative.
Pike County, Illinois is very 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.
Pittsfield, 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 Pittsfield, IL
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 20 contributions totaling $2,550 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $128 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 160 contributions totaling $18,592 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $116 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)