Big Flats, Wisconsin is a small town with a population of just over 3,000. It is part of Winnebago County and is considered a rural community. Politically speaking, Big Flats leans slightly towards the Republican Party. The mayor of Big Flats is Jamie O’Connor who was first elected in 2017 after previously serving as a city council member for eight years. Jamie has been well-received by the citizens of Big Flats and has made many improvements to the town since taking office. Every election cycle there are local political candidates vying for positions on the city council, county board, state legislature, and more. These candidates come from both major parties as well as minor ones and typically represent the current political climate in Big Flats.
The political climate in Big Flats, WI is moderately conservative.
Adams County, WI is strongly conservative. In Adams County, WI 36.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 62.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Adams county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 62.3% to 36.6%.
Adams county voted Republican in the two most recent Presidential elections, after voting Democratic in the previous four.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Big Flats, WI is moderately conservative.
Adams County, Wisconsin is strongly conservative.
Wisconsin 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.
Big Flats, Wisconsin: d d D d R 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 Big Flats, WI
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 212 contributions totaling $15,826 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $75 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 118 contributions totaling $23,401 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $198 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)