Berkeley, Missouri is a city located in St. Louis County and is home to about 8,100 people. It has a long history of politics and being a part of the greater St. Louis area, which has an impressive political presence. Berkeley has been operated by an elected mayor-council form of government since 1951. The current Mayor of Berkeley is Harold Collins, who was re-elected for his fourth term in 2020. The City Council consists of six members who are elected at large to staggered four-year terms. These members strive to ensure that the citizens’ needs are met and accounted for through policy making and budgetary decisions. In addition to the local government, Berkeley residents also participate in county and state elections as well as national ones. With so many levels of government involved, Berkeley has ample opportunities for locals to get involved in politics and make their voices heard on the issues they care about most deeply.
The political climate in Berkeley, MO is strongly liberal.
St. Louis County, MO is moderately liberal. In St. Louis County, MO 61.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 37.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, St. Louis county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 61.2% to 37.2%.
St. Louis county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Berkeley, MO is strongly liberal.
St. Louis County, Missouri is moderately liberal.
St. Louis Metro Area is leaning liberal.
Missouri is somewhat conservative.
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.
Berkeley, Missouri: 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 Berkeley, MO
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,395 contributions totaling $377,629 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $158 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 213 contributions totaling $54,396 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $255 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)