Lake Orion, MI is a small town located just north of the city of Detroit in Oakland County. It has a strong sense of community and pride, with residents who are passionate about local government and politics. The mayor of Lake Orion is Kenneth Van Portfliet, who was elected to his fourth consecutive term in November 2019. The town council members are also democratically elected and serve alternating 4-year terms. The town works hard to ensure that all voices in the community are heard by holding regular public meetings, engaging with local organizations, and hosting election forums for candidates running for office. Through these efforts, Lake Orion remains an engaged and well-informed political environment where citizens can voice their opinions on important issues facing the community.
The political climate in Lake Orion, MI is leaning liberal.
Oakland County, MI is somewhat liberal. In Oakland County, MI 56.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 42.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Oakland county remained strongly Democratic, 56.2% to 42.2%.
Oakland county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Lake Orion, MI is leaning liberal.
Oakland County, Michigan is somewhat liberal.
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.
Lake Orion, Michigan: d d 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 Lake Orion, MI
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,060 contributions totaling $42,304 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $40 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 257 contributions totaling $46,619 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $181 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)