Grafton, Illinois is a small community located in Jersey County with zip code 62037. The city is heavily invested in local government and political representation. Grafton has two major political parties, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. Furthermore, Grafton also holds elections for mayor, city council, and other offices every two years. Each office is open to both Democrats and Republicans who are elected by the residents of Grafton. Because this is such a small community, elections are determined by the majority of votes from its citizens rather than through large-scale campaigns and fundraising efforts. The current mayor of Grafton is Matthew Wiltshire and he has been in office since 2019. There are currently five members of the city council: Joe Templeton, Christy Baumgartner, Terry Delaney, Tonya Vincent-Frommelt, and Jeff Eilers. All of them were elected in 2020 through the democratic process. In general, Grafton's politics have remained consistent throughout the years with an emphasis on supporting their local businesses and citizens regardless of party affiliation or platform loyalty.
The political climate in Zip 62037 (Grafton, IL) is very conservative.
Jersey County, IL is very conservative. In Jersey County, IL 24.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 72.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Jersey county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 72.8% to 24.8%.
Jersey county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 62037 (Grafton, IL) is very conservative.
Grafton, Illinois is very conservative.
Jersey 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.
Grafton, 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 62037 (Grafton)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 8 contributions totaling $240 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $30 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 26 contributions totaling $2,531 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $97 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)