Harrisburg, IL is a small city located in Saline County with a population of 8,560 people. The city is served by a mayor-council form of government and has seven elected members on the council who serve two-year terms. Currently, Mayor John McPeek and City Council Members Steven Jones, Ryan Jameson, Jackie Vanhook, Mike Ellis, Kevin Osborne and Robert Webber are in office. The city is also represented in the Illinois State Legislature by state representatives Brandon Phelps and David Reis as well as state senators Dale Fowler and Paul Schimpf. In Harrisburg, IL citizens have several opportunities to directly participate in local politics through attending public meetings such as city council or board of education meetings to voice their opinion on various issues affecting the city.
The political climate in Zip 62946 (Harrisburg, IL) is strongly conservative.
Saline County, IL is very conservative. In Saline County, IL 25.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 73.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Saline county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 73.1% to 25.2%.
Saline county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 62946 (Harrisburg, IL) is strongly conservative.
Harrisburg, Illinois is strongly conservative.
Saline County, Illinois is very conservative.
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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.
Harrisburg, 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 62946 (Harrisburg)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 143 contributions totaling $47,565 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $333 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 146 contributions totaling $278,456 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $1,907 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)