Thompsonville, MI is a small rural town located in the northwest corner of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. The population of Thompsonville is estimated to be about 2,500 people. Despite its small size, politics is an important topic here. Many residents are passionate about their political views, and often discuss them at local events such as town hall meetings and neighborhood gatherings. In local elections there are usually several candidates for each office, giving everyone in the community a chance to make their voices heard. Politically speaking, Thompsonville leans slightly towards the Republican Party with independent-minded voters making up a sizable portion of the electorate. On Election Day and beyond, locals come together to share their views on current issues and debate various ideas on how best to move the community forward.
The political climate in Zip 49683 (Thompsonville, MI) is moderately conservative.
Benzie County, MI is somewhat conservative. In Benzie County, MI 44.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 53.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Benzie county remained moderately Republican, 53.8% to 44.7%.
Benzie county voted Republican in five of the last six Presidential elections (2008 went Democratic).
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 49683 (Thompsonville, MI) is moderately conservative.
Thompsonville, Michigan is moderately conservative.
Benzie County, Michigan is somewhat conservative.
Traverse City Metro Area is leaning 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.
Thompsonville, Michigan: r r d 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 49683 (Thompsonville)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 394 contributions totaling $20,923 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $53 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 34 contributions totaling $4,518 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $133 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)