Villa Park, IL is a small village located in DuPage County and boasts a population of just over 22,000 people. It is represented nationally by Democrat Bill Foster in the US House of Representatives. Locally, Villa Park is governed by Village President Albert Bulthuis and the six-member Village Board which serves a four year term. The Town also has three local electoral districts with their own representatives who are elected for a two year terms. Local government in Villa Park strives to maintain transparency and open communication between residents and elected officials, ensuring that citizens have an opportunity to make their voices heard on important issues. Residents are encouraged to attend public meetings and participate in the democratic process by voting in elections. Overall, Villa Park provides its citizens with an informed understanding of politics and allows them to take part in the decision making process which shapes their community.
The political climate in Villa Park, IL is somewhat liberal.
DuPage County, IL is moderately liberal. In DuPage County, IL 57.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 39.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, DuPage county remained very strongly Democratic, 57.7% to 39.7%.
DuPage county voted Democratic in the four most recent Presidential elections, after 2000 and 2004 went Republican.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Villa Park, IL is somewhat liberal.
DuPage County, Illinois is moderately 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.
Villa Park, Illinois: R r 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 Villa Park, IL
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 13,484 contributions totaling $1,552,290 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $115 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 4,056 contributions totaling $9,947,462 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $2,453 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)