The small city of Carlinville, Illinois is located in Macoupin County and has a population of around 5,000 people. The city is served by the government of Macoupin County, which is run by an elected county board. It also has a mayor-council form of government, with the mayor and six aldermen elected to serve four-year terms. Local elections are held in April every odd-numbered year for both the county board and mayor's office. The current mayor is Gary root and other local political candidates who have previously been voted into office include James Richey, Mary Ann Varble, Leonard Lance and Greg Loveless. Carlinville residents take pride in their town as they strive for economic prosperity and improved quality of life through public policies that address community concerns.
The political climate in Zip 62626 (Carlinville, IL) is strongly conservative.
Macoupin County, IL is very conservative. In Macoupin County, IL 30.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 67.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Macoupin county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 67.1% to 30.6%.
Macoupin county voted Republican in 2020, 2016, 2012 and 2004, and Democratic in 2008 and 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 62626 (Carlinville, IL) is strongly conservative.
Carlinville, Illinois is strongly conservative.
Macoupin County, Illinois is very conservative.
St. Louis Metro Area is leaning liberal.
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.
Carlinville, Illinois: d 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 zip 62626 (Carlinville)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 503 contributions totaling $18,777 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $37 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 57 contributions totaling $7,026 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $123 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)