Carroll County, IL is located in the northern part of the state near Wisconsin. It is politically a blue county, meaning it typically votes Democrat in presidential elections. The county has a Board of Commissioners who are responsible for government services like public safety, health and welfare, infrastructure planning and maintenance, and land use. These commissioners are elected by the citizens of Carroll County every four years. Local political candidates often focus their campaigns on issues that affect the county’s residents such as education, economic growth, job creation, public safety, infrastructure improvements and other important matters. In recent elections Carroll County residents have overwhelmingly voted in favor of Democratic candidates for the local offices up for grabs.
The political climate in Carroll County, IL is strongly conservative.
In Carroll County, IL 34.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 63.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Carroll county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 63.5% to 34.2%.
Carroll county voted Republican in four of the six previous Presidential elections (2008 and 2012 went Democratic).
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Carroll County, IL is strongly 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.
Carroll, Illinois: R R d d 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 Carroll County, IL
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 435 contributions totaling $20,360 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $47 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 274 contributions totaling $42,597 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $155 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)