Pittsfield, IL is located in Pike County and is a small town with a population of 6,523. Despite its size, Pittsfield is an active municipality that takes part in local politics. The town runs on a mayor-council system of government with the mayor being the chief executive officer of the city and the city council being the legislative branch. Currently, the mayor of Pittsfield is Dave Eberle and the six members of city council are Seth Whitehead, Terry Smith, Bill Crossland, Mary Wilson, Tom Bainter and Bernadette Moore. The primary political objectives for Pittsfield are to ensure safety and security for its citizens as well as improve public infrastructure such as roads and bridges. Local leadership works hard to create policies that will benefit all residents within their jurisdiction while fostering economic development opportunities for businesses both large and small.
The political climate in Zip 62363 (Pittsfield, IL) is strongly conservative.
Pike County, IL is very conservative. In Pike County, IL 18.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 79.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Pike county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 79.5% to 18.6%.
Pike county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 62363 (Pittsfield, IL) is strongly conservative.
Pittsfield, Illinois is strongly conservative.
Pike 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.
Pittsfield, 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 62363 (Pittsfield)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 10 contributions totaling $1,275 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $128 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 77 contributions totaling $8,846 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $115 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)