Sheffield Lake, Ohio is a small city located in Lorain County with a population of around 6,000. It has a mayor-council form of government and the current mayor is John Hunter. The city council includes five members who are elected to serve four-year terms, and one council president who serves two years. In addition to the city government, Sheffield Lake also has representatives in both the Ohio House and Senate. These representatives help to ensure that the needs of their constituents are met, advocating for resources such as education, transportation, public safety, health care and other important issues. Sheffield Lake residents have access to local police protection as well as fire protection services from the Bay Village Fire Department. In general, Sheffield Lake politics prioritize improving quality of life for all residents through initiatives such as community development projects and investment in public safety programs.
The political climate in Zip 44054 (Sheffield Lake, OH) is leaning conservative.
Lorain County, OH is leaning conservative. In Lorain County, OH 48.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 50.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Lorain county flipped narrowly Republican, 50.4% to 48.0%.
Lorain county flipped Republican afer voting Democratic in the previous five Presidential elections.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 44054 (Sheffield Lake, OH) is leaning conservative.
Sheffield Lake, Ohio is leaning conservative.
Lorain County, Ohio is leaning conservative.
Cleveland-Elyria Metro Area is somewhat liberal.
Ohio is leaning conservative.
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.
Sheffield Lake, Ohio: D D D D d 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 44054 (Sheffield Lake)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 234 contributions totaling $14,736 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $63 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 21 contributions totaling $4,153 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $198 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)