Royal Oak Charter Township is located in Oakland County, Michigan and is part of the Detroit metropolitan area. It is home to a population of approximately 11,000 people and has an area of 3 square miles. The township has its own elected government that oversees basic services such as police, fire, and road maintenance. Elected officials include a supervisor, treasurer, clerk, and four trustees who are voted in by the residents every two years. The citizens of Royal Oak Charter Township value their local politics as most recently shown by the 2020 election when all incumbent candidates were reelected with overwhelming support from voters. These officials continue to work hard to ensure that Royal Oak remains a safe and vibrant community for its residents.
The political climate in Royal Oak charter, MI is moderately 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
Royal Oak charter, MI is moderately 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.
Royal Oak charter, 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 Royal Oak charter, MI
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,665 contributions totaling $160,500 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $60 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 97 contributions totaling $20,700 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $213 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)