Zip 61705 (Bloomington, IL) Voting


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The politics in 61705 Bloomington, Illinois is dominated by the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party holds a majority of both the state House and Senate, as well as both statewide constitutional offices. In the city of Bloomington, Mayor Tari Renner and the City Council are all Democratic members. This has been the case for many years; in fact, there hasn’t been a Republican leader in Bloomington since 2001. There are currently no local political candidates running for office in 61705 Bloomington, but residents can get involved by joining local organizations that support their party of choice or volunteering to help with campaigns on election day. Local elections usually involve a handful of mayoral and City Council races every few years. Voters can stay informed about upcoming elections through news sources such as television stations and newspapers.

The political climate in Zip 61705 (Bloomington, IL) is leaning conservative.

McLean County, IL is leaning liberal. In McLean County, IL 50.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 46.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 3.4% voted Independent.

In the last Presidential election, McLean county flipped Democratic, 50.3% to 46.3%.
McLean county flipped Democratic in 2020, after voting Republican in four of the last six Presidential elections.


The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index

Zip 61705 (Bloomington, IL) is leaning conservative.


Bloomington, Illinois is leaning conservative.

McLean County, Illinois is leaning liberal.

Bloomington Metro Area is leaning 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.

Bloomington, Illinois: R R d R r 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 zip 61705 (Bloomington)

In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 252 contributions totaling $18,526 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $74 per contribution.

In the last 4 years, there were 247 contributions totaling $38,932 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $158 per contribution.

(source: Federal Election Commission)

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