Mentor Township is located in Cheboygan County, Michigan and is a small rural township that has a population of around 1,000 people. The township is managed by an elected board of trustees that oversees the day-to-day operations of the community. The board consists of five trustees and one supervisor that are elected for two year terms. The township's political landscape revolves around local government issues such as infrastructure development, economic development, zoning regulations, and budgeting. Local politicians often attend public meetings to discuss their views on these topics with the residents of Mentor Township. In addition to local elections, Mentor Township residents also have the opportunity to vote for representatives at the state and federal levels. Each election brings new candidates who hope to represent the citizens of Mentor Township on various issues that affect the area.
The political climate in Mentor township (Cheboygan County), MI is strongly conservative.
Cheboygan County, MI is strongly conservative. In Cheboygan County, MI 34.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 64.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Cheboygan county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 64.1% to 34.2%.
Cheboygan county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Mentor township (Cheboygan County), MI is strongly conservative.
Cheboygan County, Michigan is strongly 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.
Mentor township (Cheboygan 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 Mentor township (Cheboygan County), MI
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 197 contributions totaling $8,409 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $43 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 107 contributions totaling $17,727 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $166 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)