The village of Kirkland, IL is a small community located in DeKalb County. It has an area of 4.7 square miles and a population of approximately 1,400 people. Politically speaking, Kirkland is part of the 16th Congressional District in Illinois, which is represented by Republican Adam Kinzinger in the House of Representatives. Kirkland also falls within the 64th Legislative District of Illinois and Senator Robert Finkenauer represents it in the State Senate. On a local level, the Village Board consists of six trustees who are elected to four-year terms and a village president who presides over the board and is elected to a four-year term as well. All village elections are nonpartisan and residents vote on initiatives proposed by the board. In recent years, the Village Board has taken steps to reduce property taxes while still providing essential services to its residents.
The political climate in Zip 60146 (Kirkland, IL) is leaning conservative.
DeKalb County, IL is leaning liberal. In DeKalb County, IL 51.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 45.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 3.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, DeKalb county remained moderately Democratic, 51.4% to 45.6%.
DeKalb county voted Democratic in the four most recent Presidential elections, after 2000 and 2004 went Republican.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 60146 (Kirkland, IL) is leaning conservative.
Kirkland, Illinois is leaning conservative.
DeKalb County, Illinois is leaning liberal.
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin Metro Area is very 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.
Kirkland, Illinois: r r D d d 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 60146 (Kirkland)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 0 contributions totaling $0 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $0 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 33 contributions totaling $11,303 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $343 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)