The city of Belding, MI 48809 has a population of around 5,000 people and is located in the Ionia County. Belding's political landscape is made up of a mayor-council form of government, with the mayor being elected by citizens every two years. The City Council is comprised of five members that are also elected by the citizens of Belding every four years. The current mayor is Mayor Ron Gunderson, who has been in office since 2017. In addition to local government, there are many state and federal representatives that represent Belding and its citizens at all levels of government. These include Senator Dale Zorn from Michigan’s 17th state district and Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin from Michigan’s 8th congressional district. As a whole, Belding's political landscape provides citizens with access to state and federal representatives through their local representation on the City Council as well as the Mayor’s Office.
The political climate in Zip 48809 (Belding, MI) is strongly conservative.
Ionia County, MI is strongly conservative. In Ionia County, MI 33.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 64.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Ionia county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 64.1% to 33.8%.
Ionia county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 48809 (Belding, MI) is strongly conservative.
Belding, Michigan is strongly conservative.
Ionia County, Michigan is strongly conservative.
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Michigan is leaning 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.
Belding, Michigan: 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 48809 (Belding)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 54 contributions totaling $4,775 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $88 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 21 contributions totaling $2,475 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $118 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)