Thornapple, WI is a small town in Wisconsin with a population of approximately 8,000 people. Politically speaking, Thornapple is mostly conservative leaning with Republican representation at both the state and federal level. While there are several local candidates running for various political offices, most of them are affiliated with the Republican Party. The majority of residents in Thornapple tend to support the party’s conservative values and policies. In recent years, there has been some debate on certain issues such as taxes and government spending that have been hotly contested by some members of the community. This has led to occasional disagreements between local politicians over the direction that the town should take in terms of policy decisions. Despite this, Thornapple remains a close-knit community that takes pride in its small-town values and traditions while also recognizing the fact that it needs to keep up with changes in society and our world today.
The political climate in Thornapple, WI is strongly conservative.
Rusk County, WI is very conservative. In Rusk County, WI 31.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 66.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Rusk county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 66.7% to 31.9%.
Rusk county voted Republican in five of the last six Presidential elections (2008 went Democratic).
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Thornapple, WI is strongly conservative.
Rusk 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.
Thornapple, 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 Thornapple, WI
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 312 contributions totaling $25,464 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $82 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 42 contributions totaling $9,615 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $229 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)