Lapeer County, Michigan is home to a diverse political landscape. In local elections, Lapeer county residents have the opportunity to select their representatives from a variety of candidates across multiple parties. The political environment in Lapeer County is characterized by a number of different issues including economic growth, education, public safety and health care. Residents of the county are passionate about these issues and often hold strong opinions on how to best address them. As a result, local elections are often heated and contested with passionate arguments between opposing sides. No matter what type of election it is, there are always an array of candidates who bring unique perspectives and ideas to the table which helps shape the discussion and inform voters when making their decisions on Election Day.
The political climate in Lapeer County, MI is very conservative.
In Lapeer County, MI 31.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 67.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Lapeer county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 67.3% to 31.0%.
Lapeer county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Lapeer County, MI is very conservative.
Detroit-Warren-Dearborn Metro Area is somewhat liberal.
Michigan 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.
Lapeer, Michigan: R R r 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 for the Democrat and I for the Independent. 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 Lapeer County, MI
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,674 contributions totaling $84,841 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $51 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 695 contributions totaling $231,068 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $332 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)