Carterville, IL is a small city located in Williamson County in the southern part of the state. The local politics are mainly focused around issues that concern the residents of Carterville directly. These include quality of education, public safety, economic development, and infrastructure improvements. The current mayor is Dale Kerns who was elected in 2019 and has been working to improve the city's infrastructure and promote economic development. The City Council consists of five members who are elected to two-year terms and work with the mayor on various projects. Local elections for City Council usually bring out a large voter turnout as people want to have their voice heard in deciding the future of their city. In order to gain political influence, it is important for citizens to become politically active and informed about local candidates and issues.
The political climate in Zip 62918 (Carterville, IL) is strongly conservative.
Williamson County, IL is very conservative. In Williamson County, IL 30.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 67.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Williamson county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 67.6% to 30.3%.
Williamson county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 62918 (Carterville, IL) is strongly conservative.
Carterville, Illinois is strongly conservative.
Williamson County, Illinois is very conservative.
Carbondale-Marion Metro Area is moderately 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.
Carterville, Illinois: r R R 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 62918 (Carterville)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 256 contributions totaling $27,347 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $107 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 42 contributions totaling $12,285 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $293 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)