Sterling Heights, Michigan is a city of roughly 131,000 people located in Macomb County. The Mayor of Sterling Heights is Michael C. Taylor, who has served in office since 2011. The City Council consists of seven members serving staggered two-year terms and are responsible for enacting local ordinances and making policy decisions. The City Manager works with the Mayor and the City Council to ensure that those decisions are implemented successfully. There are several local political candidates running for office this year, including State Representative Jeff Hall, Macomb Country Commissioner Diane Young and Macomb County Clerk Fred Miller, each of whom are committed to helping move Sterling Heights forward through their respective platforms on economic growth, public safety, and infrastructure improvements.
The political climate in Zip 48312 (Sterling Heights, MI) is leaning conservative.
Macomb County, MI is leaning conservative. In Macomb County, MI 45.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 53.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Macomb county remained moderately Republican, 53.4% to 45.3%.
Macomb county voted Republican in 2020, 2016 and 2004, and Democratic in 2012, 2008 and 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 48312 (Sterling Heights, MI) is leaning conservative.
Sterling Heights, Michigan is leaning conservative.
Macomb County, Michigan is leaning 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.
Sterling Heights, Michigan: d r d d 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 48312 (Sterling Heights)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 4,856 contributions totaling $381,468 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $79 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 241 contributions totaling $49,258 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $204 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)