Peoria County, Illinois is located in Central Illinois and has a population of 186,494. The county is divided into different townships and municipalities and is represented by a number of different political parties including Republican, Democratic, and Independent. The main offices for the county are the county board chairman, state’s attorney, coroner, supervisor of assessments, recorder and more. Each office holder can be elected to their position through popular vote or appointed by the Governor. The current county board chairman is Andrew Rand while the state’s attorney is Jerry Brady. On a local level, candidates can be seen running for city council members or village trustees among other positions in municipalities throughout Peoria County. It's important for residents to stay informed about local politics in order to make sure that citizens have their voices heard at all levels of government.
The political climate in Peoria County, IL is leaning liberal.
In Peoria County, IL 51.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 45.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Peoria county remained moderately Democratic, 51.9% to 45.6%.
Peoria county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Peoria County, IL is leaning liberal.
Peoria Metro Area is somewhat conservative.
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.
Peoria, Illinois: d d D d d d
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 Peoria County, IL
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 5,435 contributions totaling $883,088 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $162 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 2,948 contributions totaling $1,426,237 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $484 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)