The politics in 62896 West Frankfort, IL is heavily influenced by the Democratic Party. The city’s population of 8,669 has elected Democrats to represent them in the United States House of Representatives and the Illinois State Legislature. In 2020, John Shimkus was re-elected to his ninth term as the congressman for Illinois's 15th District which includes West Frankfort. The local state senator is Dale Fowler who was also elected to his third term in 2020. The state representative for West Frankfort is Terri Bryant who was re-elected in 2018 and serves her third term. All three representatives are members of the Democratic Party and have been instrumental in advocating for their constituents.
The political climate in Zip 62896 (West Frankfort, IL) is strongly conservative.
Franklin County, IL is very conservative. In Franklin County, IL 25.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 73.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Franklin county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 73.0% to 25.5%.
Franklin county voted Republican in the last five Presidential elections, after voting Democratic in 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 62896 (West Frankfort, IL) is strongly conservative.
West Frankfort, Illinois is strongly conservative.
Franklin 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.
West Frankfort, Illinois: d 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 62896 (West Frankfort)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 188 contributions totaling $16,135 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $86 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 162 contributions totaling $310,712 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $1,918 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)