Sheffield Lake, OH is a small city located in the northeastern part of Ohio. It is governed by a mayor-council system of government, which consists of seven council members and a directly elected mayor. The mayor and council members are responsible for setting policies and regulations, creating an annual budget, passing ordinances, appointing citizens to boards and commissions, etc. Currently, the Mayor of Sheffield Lake is Maryann Ferenec and the City Council Members are Brian Smith, Jim McBride, Tom Mariani, Julia Caravetta, Mark Kaley, Tracy Hanten and Joe Sommers. Each year local citizens elect these representatives in order to help make decisions for their community. They meet regularly to discuss local concerns and determine how best to serve their constituents. The city also works with various outside organizations to tackle problems such as improving infrastructure or providing assistance to those in need. In this way they strive to make Sheffield Lake a better place for everyone who lives there.
The political climate in Sheffield Lake, OH is leaning conservative.
Lorain County, OH is leaning conservative. In Lorain County, OH 48.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 50.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Lorain county flipped narrowly Republican, 50.4% to 48.0%.
Lorain county flipped Republican afer voting Democratic in the previous five Presidential elections.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Sheffield Lake, OH is leaning conservative.
Lorain County, Ohio is leaning conservative.
Cleveland-Elyria Metro Area is somewhat liberal.
Ohio is leaning 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.
Sheffield Lake, Ohio: D D D D d 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 Sheffield Lake, OH
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 234 contributions totaling $14,736 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $63 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 21 contributions totaling $4,153 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $198 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)