The city of 48081 St. Clair Shores, MI is located in Macomb County and is governed by a mayor and eight council members. The current mayor is Kip Walby, who was elected in 2017, and the members of the City Council are David Clemente, Mark Perri, Peter Rubino, Christopher Vitale, Steven D. Kochinski Jr., Chris Vitale, Anthony Tiseo and Melissa Keyes-Tiseo. This local government works together to promote the best interests of citizens by providing quality services such as public safety, infrastructure improvements and recreational activities for residents to enjoy. In addition to the local government officials who manage St. Clair Shores on a day-to-day basis, there are also various state representatives from Michigan's 9th Congressional District who work to ensure that the needs of their constituents are met both locally and in Washington D.C. Furthermore, voters have the opportunity to exercise their right to vote at elections for both local offices as well as presidential ones if they so choose.
The political climate in Zip 48081 (St. Clair Shores, MI) is leaning conservative.
Macomb County, MI is leaning conservative. In Macomb County, MI 45.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 53.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Macomb county remained moderately Republican, 53.4% to 45.3%.
Macomb county voted Republican in 2020, 2016 and 2004, and Democratic in 2012, 2008 and 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 48081 (St. Clair Shores, MI) is leaning conservative.
St. Clair Shores, Michigan is leaning conservative.
Macomb County, Michigan is leaning 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.
St. Clair Shores, Michigan: d 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 zip 48081 (St. Clair Shores)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 801 contributions totaling $125,365 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $157 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 184 contributions totaling $44,601 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $242 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)