Cumming, MI is a small city located in Michigan's Lower Peninsula. The city has a mayor-council government system, with the mayor being elected for two-year terms and the council members being four-year terms. Council members represent each ward of the city and make up the legislative branch of the local government. The current mayor is Mayor Chris Mory, who was elected in 2019. The city council consists of seven members including Vice President Jackson Roan, Secretary Dean Miller, and Treasurer Daniel Smith. Together they direct city services, approve budgets and enact local laws that will benefit all of Cumming's citizens. They also work to bring more business into the community and help create a better quality of life for all who live there.
The political climate in Cumming, MI is strongly conservative.
Ogemaw County, MI is very conservative. In Ogemaw County, MI 29.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 69.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Ogemaw county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 69.2% to 29.2%.
Ogemaw county voted Republican in 2020, 2016, 2012 and 2004, and Democratic in 2008 and 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Cumming, MI is strongly conservative.
Ogemaw County, Michigan is very conservative.
Michigan is leaning 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.
Cumming, Michigan: d r d 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 Cumming, MI
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 170 contributions totaling $8,429 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $50 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 154 contributions totaling $20,068 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $130 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)