Custer Township in Antrim County, Michigan is a small community with an estimated population of 3,619 individuals. The local politics are focused on providing the best services to the residents of the township through initiatives and projects that focus on making the township more attractive and livable. Local political candidates strive to ensure that public services such as health care, education, transportation, parks and recreation, and civic engagement are well served; while maintaining a low tax burden for residents. Additionally, attention is placed on preserving Custer Township’s unique rural character by protecting farmland from development and encouraging more sustainable growth practices. It is through these efforts that local political candidates seek reelection with the goal of continuing to serve their constituents faithfully.
The political climate in Custer township (Antrim County), MI is moderately conservative.
Antrim County, MI is moderately conservative. In Antrim County, MI 37.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 61.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Antrim county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 61.0% to 37.3%.
Antrim county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Custer township (Antrim County), MI is moderately conservative.
Antrim County, Michigan is moderately 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.
Custer township (Antrim County), Michigan: 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 Custer township (Antrim County), MI
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 614 contributions totaling $33,190 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $54 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 126 contributions totaling $14,481 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $115 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)