Mason, Michigan is a vibrant town home to around 8,000 people. The town is serviced by a mayor-council system that includes the Mayor, six council members, and an appointed City Manager. These elected officials work together to make decisions about the community and ensure its growth and positive progress. In addition, Mason has state representatives in the Michigan Senate and House of Representatives who work on behalf of the community’s interests in Lansing. The town also takes part in local elections where residents vote for their preferred candidates to serve on various local boards such as the School Board, Planning Commission, Parks Commission and Library Board. With so many different levels of representation from local to state politics, Mason is an engaging and active community when it comes to politics.
The political climate in Mason, MI is somewhat liberal.
Ingham County, MI is very liberal. In Ingham County, MI 65.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 33.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Ingham county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 65.2% to 33.0%.
Ingham county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Mason, MI is somewhat liberal.
Ingham County, Michigan is very liberal.
Lansing-East Lansing Metro Area is moderately 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.
Mason, 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 Mason, MI
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 769 contributions totaling $66,727 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $87 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 157 contributions totaling $56,697 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $361 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)