Van Buren Charter Township, MI is located in Wayne County and is part of the Metro Detroit area. The township is governed by a board of trustees consisting of five members, all of whom are elected at-large for staggered four-year terms. The township also has an elected clerk and treasurer, as well as appointed assessor and superintendent. The current trustees are Scott Gosselin (Chairman), Mike Baumann (Vice Chairman), Joel Workman (Trustee), Don Raupp (Trustee) and Jeff Roland (Trustee). In addition to the local government, the people of Van Buren Charter Township have access to state and county representatives who are elected to represent them in Lansing and Detroit. This representation allows residents to voice their opinion about important issues that affect their community.
The political climate in Van Buren charter, MI is moderately liberal.
Wayne County, MI is very liberal. In Wayne County, MI 68.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 30.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Wayne county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 68.3% to 30.3%.
Wayne county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Van Buren charter, MI is moderately liberal.
Wayne County, Michigan is very 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.
Van Buren 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 Van Buren charter, MI
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,639 contributions totaling $244,908 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $93 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 618 contributions totaling $114,579 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $185 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)