Bureau County is located in the Northern part of Illinois and is known for its rich agricultural heritage. The county is governed by a Board of Commissioners, which is responsible for setting policy initiatives that improve the quality of life in Bureau County. In terms of local politics, the county operates under the rules established by the Illinois statutes, which provides guidance on a variety of issues such as taxation, elections, public safety and more. Currently, Bureau County has two representatives in the Illinois House of Representatives: State Representative Don Moffitt and State Representative Tony McCombie. The county also has multiple candidates running for various local offices in each election cycle, ensuring that residents have a say in who represents them when it comes to making decisions about their community.
The political climate in Bureau County, IL is moderately conservative.
In Bureau County, IL 38.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 59.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Bureau county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 59.5% to 38.1%.
Bureau county voted Republican in five of the last six Presidential elections (2008 went Democratic).
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Bureau County, IL is moderately conservative.
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Illinois is moderately 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.
Bureau, Illinois: 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 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 Bureau County, IL
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,003 contributions totaling $52,183 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $52 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 320 contributions totaling $80,681 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $252 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)