Frederic, MI, located in Crawford County, is a small town with a population of approximately 826 people. Politically, the town is part of Michigan's 38th District, represented in the Michigan House of Representatives by Gary Howell and in the Michigan Senate by Wayne Schmidt. Locally, Frederic has a mayor and village council that work together to manage day-to-day operations within the community. The Village Council consists of seven members who are elected to serve two-year terms. The Mayor serves as the presiding officer over all meetings of the Council and is responsible for setting agendas for review in order to facilitate effective decision making. All members of the community have an important role to play in influencing local policy decisions through either attending council meetings or engaging with their representatives directly. Through active civic engagement and open dialogue between citizens and their representatives, Frederic can continue to be successful and thrive politically for many years to come.
The political climate in Zip 49733 (Frederic, MI) is strongly conservative.
Crawford County, MI is strongly conservative. In Crawford County, MI 34.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 64.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Crawford county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 64.7% to 34.0%.
Crawford county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 49733 (Frederic, MI) is strongly conservative.
Frederic, Michigan is strongly conservative.
Crawford 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.
Frederic, 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 49733 (Frederic)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 104 contributions totaling $5,128 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $49 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 0 contributions totaling $0 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $0 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)