Post Lake, WI is a small rural town located in northeastern Wisconsin. It is home to a friendly and close-knit community of about 500 people. While the town is not very large, its politics are just as important to its citizens as those of larger towns and cities. Every election season brings out passionate debates over the best candidates for local government positions such as mayor, town council members, and county representatives. The streets come alive with political debates and rallies as passionate residents make their cases for why they believe their candidate of choice should be elected. The election season in Post Lake is an exciting time when residents can express their opinion on who they think should lead the community into the future.
The political climate in Post Lake, WI is strongly conservative.
Langlade County, WI is very conservative. In Langlade County, WI 33.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 65.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Langlade county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 65.7% to 33.2%.
Langlade county voted Republican in five of the last six Presidential elections (2008 went Democratic).
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Post Lake, WI is strongly conservative.
Langlade County, Wisconsin is very 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.
Post Lake, Wisconsin: r R d R 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 Post Lake, WI
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 3 contributions totaling $220 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $73 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 7 contributions totaling $2,500 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $357 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)