Lake Isabella, MI is a small town located in Michigan's Lower Peninsula and has a close-knit community. Despite its size, this town remains an active participant in the local political scene. The current mayor of Lake Isabella is Bruce Smith, who was elected in 2018. Smith has focused his term on improving infrastructure and increasing economic development throughout the city. Additionally, the city council meets regularly to discuss changes to the local code and to ensure that the citizens of Lake Isabella are being heard. Every two years, residents of Lake Isabella can vote for their preferred candidate from both major parties during the general elections. Residents here take their civic duty very seriously, and voter turnout is always high during election season.
The political climate in Lake Isabella, MI is somewhat conservative.
Isabella County, MI is leaning conservative. In Isabella County, MI 47.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 50.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Isabella county remained Republican, 50.3% to 47.7%.
Isabella county voted Republican in the two most recent Presidential elections, after voting Democratic in the previous four.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Lake Isabella, MI is somewhat conservative.
Isabella County, Michigan is leaning conservative.
Mount Pleasant Metro Area is leaning 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.
Lake Isabella, Michigan: d d D d 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 Lake Isabella, MI
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,202 contributions totaling $656,161 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $298 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 602 contributions totaling $420,394 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $698 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)