Elba Township in Lapeer County, Michigan is a small community with a strong sense of civic pride. The township has its own elected officials who serve the community and help to shape local laws and regulations. Every four years, residents of Elba Township are able to vote for the supervisor, treasurer, clerk, highway commissioner, two trustees and two constables who make up the Elba Township Board. Each board member is responsible for different aspects of running the township such as budgeting, property management or public safety. During election time, local candidates often host events in order to get their name out there and meet with potential constituents in order to discuss issues that are important to them and understand what people are looking for from their leadership.
The political climate in Elba township (Lapeer County), MI is strongly conservative.
Lapeer County, MI is very conservative. In Lapeer County, MI 31.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 67.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Lapeer county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 67.3% to 31.0%.
Lapeer county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Elba township (Lapeer County), MI is strongly conservative.
Lapeer County, Michigan is very conservative.
Detroit-Warren-Dearborn Metro Area is somewhat liberal.
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.
Elba township (Lapeer 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 Elba township (Lapeer County), MI
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,857 contributions totaling $112,911 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $61 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 719 contributions totaling $84,841 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $118 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)