Flint, Michigan is a city that has faced challenges in recent years due to its political climate. It is currently undergoing significant changes in leadership, with many new faces entering into local government positions, including the mayor's office. The city council and mayor are working diligently together to create and implement solutions to the issues facing Flint. These include creating jobs for the community, improving infrastructure, and improving access to quality public education. Community outreach initiatives have been implemented in order to ensure citizens have their voices heard by local leaders. Despite these efforts, Flint's citizens continue to face economic hardships as well as health disparities due to the lingering effects of the water crisis which began in 2014. It is essential that both citizens and local politicians continue to work together in order for progress and positive change can be made within the city.
The political climate in Zip 48532 (Flint, MI) is leaning liberal.
Genesee County, MI is somewhat liberal. In Genesee County, MI 53.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 44.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Genesee county remained moderately Democratic, 53.8% to 44.5%.
Genesee county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 48532 (Flint, MI) is leaning liberal.
Flint, Michigan is leaning liberal.
Genesee County, Michigan is somewhat liberal.
Flint Metro Area is somewhat liberal.
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.
Flint, Michigan: D D 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 48532 (Flint)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 538 contributions totaling $60,452 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $112 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 67 contributions totaling $14,423 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $215 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)