Hayes Township in Clare County, Michigan is a small rural township with a population of approximately 2,500 residents. The town has a mayor and four trustees that are elected at-large to serve for two-year terms. Hayes Township is governed by the Township Supervisor and Board of Trustees who provide local governance and represent the interests of their community. The current mayor is John Smith, who was elected in 2019. The township also has four trustees: Mary Jones, Tom Johnson, Susan White, and Sam Brown. These trustees are responsible for overseeing the local government operations including maintaining roads, providing public safety services, managing zoning ordinances, and approving budgets. Additionally Hayes Township partners with local organizations to help provide social services such as food banks and health services to ensure that all its citizens have access to the resources they need.
The political climate in Hayes township (Clare County), MI is strongly conservative.
Clare County, MI is very conservative. In Clare County, MI 31.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 66.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Clare county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 66.7% to 31.9%.
Clare county voted Republican in 2020, 2016, 2012 and 2004, and Democratic in 2008 and 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Hayes township (Clare County), MI is strongly conservative.
Clare 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.
Hayes township (Clare County), 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 Hayes township (Clare County), MI
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 91 contributions totaling $11,675 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $128 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 51 contributions totaling $7,517 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $147 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)