The small village of Copper Harbor, Michigan is nestled on the shores of Lake Superior in Keweenaw County. While the population of 49918 may be small, their love for politics is certainly not. With a variety of elected officials and candidates from both major political parties, Copper Harbor residents take great pride in selecting who will best serve their community. Every election cycle, Copper Harbor's citizens come out to cast their ballots and make sure that their voices are heard. As a result, local elections in Copper Harbor are always hotly contested and full of passionate debate as people strive to choose the candidate that will best represent them and their interests.
The political climate in Zip 49918 (Copper Harbor, MI) is somewhat conservative.
Keweenaw County, MI is somewhat conservative. In Keweenaw County, MI 43.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 55.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Keweenaw county remained strongly Republican, 55.4% to 43.2%.
Keweenaw county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 49918 (Copper Harbor, MI) is somewhat conservative.
Copper Harbor, Michigan is somewhat conservative.
Keweenaw County, Michigan is somewhat conservative.
Houghton Metro Area is somewhat conservative.
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.
Copper Harbor, 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 49918 (Copper Harbor)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 11 contributions totaling $625 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $57 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 4 contributions totaling $140 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $35 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)