Sands, MI is a small town located in the Midwest with a population of around 4,000 people. The local politics of Sands are largely centered around the Mayor and City Council. The Mayor is elected to a four-year term while members of the City Council are elected to two-year terms. Currently, the Mayor is Tricia Johnson who was elected in 2018 and has been serving since then. The City Council consists of six members who all have specific areas of specialty that they focus on when creating policy decisions for the town. All decisions by both the Mayor and City Council are aimed at improving Sands and making life better for its citizens.
The political climate in Sands, MI is leaning conservative.
Marquette County, MI is somewhat liberal. In Marquette County, MI 54.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 43.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Marquette county remained strongly Democratic, 54.5% to 43.4%.
Marquette county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Sands, MI is leaning conservative.
Marquette County, Michigan is somewhat liberal.
Marquette 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.
Sands, 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 Sands, MI
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 3,097 contributions totaling $198,710 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $64 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 415 contributions totaling $97,262 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $234 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)