The city of Westland, Michigan is located in Wayne County and is home to approximately 84,000 people. The city is represented by elected officials that work to ensure local citizens are heard and their needs addressed. Currently serving as mayor of Westland is Bill Wild who was elected in 2017 and has made a commitment to providing strong leadership for the community. Other elected officials include five city council members, a treasurer, clerk, police chief and fire chief. These individuals have been working hard to keep the city running smoothly and uphold the values of the community. They have focused on improving public safety initiatives, providing quality public services and creating economic development opportunities throughout Westland. With the recent mayoral election, citizens have seen a renewed effort towards addressing important concerns like crime rates, infrastructure improvements and business growth throughout the area. Through their efforts, many positive changes have been made in Westland that will continue to benefit its residents for years to come.
The political climate in Zip 48186 (Westland, MI) is strongly liberal.
Wayne County, MI is very liberal. In Wayne County, MI 68.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 30.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Wayne county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 68.3% to 30.3%.
Wayne county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 48186 (Westland, MI) is strongly liberal.
Westland, Michigan is strongly liberal.
Wayne County, Michigan is very liberal.
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.
Westland, 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 48186 (Westland)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,573 contributions totaling $22,880 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $15 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 111 contributions totaling $13,587 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $122 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)