The city of Hartland, Michigan, is a small yet vibrant community located in Livingston County. It is home to nearly 10,000 people and has a proud history and culture that dates back centuries. As far as politics in Hartland are concerned, the city government is managed by an elected mayor and council. The mayor is responsible for setting the city's policy direction, overseeing the budget and other activities. At the local level elections are held regularly for Mayor and City Council members. The current Mayor is Bill Meyer who was elected in 2017. City Council members also serve four-year terms and represent various constituencies within Hartland. In addition to having representation at the local level, Hartlanders are represented in state legislature by two State Senators and one State Representative who all work together to ensure that Hartland's needs are met on both a local and state level.
The political climate in Zip 48353 (Hartland, MI) is moderately conservative.
Livingston County, MI is moderately conservative. In Livingston County, MI 37.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 60.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Livingston county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 60.5% to 37.9%.
Livingston county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 48353 (Hartland, MI) is moderately conservative.
Hartland, Michigan is moderately conservative.
Livingston County, Michigan is moderately conservative.
Detroit-Warren-Dearborn 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.
Hartland, 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 48353 (Hartland)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 190 contributions totaling $17,265 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $91 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 63 contributions totaling $7,718 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $123 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)