Now that we’re starting up the election swing to decide not only our next President, but many other local statewide initiatives, it’s important to put into context the types of decisions that will be made in the coming years.
Who makes the decisions? Not the people getting elected. It’s the voters.
Specifically, we wanted to know which cities have the highest number of liberal voters in the Prairie State?
In order to do so, we turned our sites on measuring how each city in Illinois with populations greater than 5,000 voted and contributed to political campaigns in the past several years. The cities with the highest percentage of voters who voted Democrat and gave the most to liberals where named the most liberal cities in the state.
Here are the 10 most liberal places in Illinois for 2019:
If you’re wondering, Effingham is the most conservative city in Illinois of all those we measured.
And to be clear, we didn’t form this list based on our own biases — we relied on the cold hard data. For more on how we ran the numbers, keep on reading. Then we’ll take a closer look at each of our top 10 most liberal cities in Illinois.
And if you already knew these places were liberal, check out some more reading about Illinois and the most lberal places in the country:
How we determined the most liberal cities in Illinois for 2019
We started by making a list of every city in Illinois over 5,000 people based on the 2013-2017 American Community Survey (The most recent data). That left us with 330 cities and towns.
We then measured the voting record and donation data to determine which places lean the most rightward in their allegiances by:
- Percentage Of Registered Democrats
- # Of Contributions To Democrats Per Capita
- $ Amount Contributed To Democrats Per Capita
Next, we ranked each city from 1 to 330 for each of the criteria where number one was the most liberal.
The winner, Lansing, is “The Most liberal City in Illinois For 2019”.
Let’s go through these liberal places, shall we?
The 10 Most liberal Places In Illinois For 2019
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Lansing is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Lansing is a southern suburb of Chicago. The population was 28,331 at the 2010 census.
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Lemont is a village located in Cook, DuPage, and Will counties in the U.S. state of Illinois, and is a suburb of Chicago. The population was 16,000 as of the 2010 census. Lemont is home to Argonne National Laboratory and other heavy industrial sites.
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Population: 13,661
Percent Democrat: 73.9%
$ Democrat Amount Per Capita: $7.22
# Democrat Contributions Per Capita: 0.04
More on Richton Park: Data
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Population: 54,493
Percent Democrat: 73.9%
$ Democrat Amount Per Capita: $23.67
# Democrat Contributions Per Capita: 0.31
More on Mount Prospect: Data
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Population: 11,398
Percent Democrat: 73.9%
$ Democrat Amount Per Capita: $0.17
# Democrat Contributions Per Capita: 0.0
More on Summit: Data
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Elmwood Park is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 24,883 at the 2010 census. The community has long maintained a large Italian-American population, with a more recent influx of Polish-American and Hispanic residents.
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Population: 6,371
Percent Democrat: 73.9%
$ Democrat Amount Per Capita: $84.76
# Democrat Contributions Per Capita: 0.32
More on Posen: Data
Posen is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Posen is the German-language name for the western Polish city of Pozna. The population of the village was 5,987 at the 2010 census, up from 4,730 in 2000.
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Population: 19,165
Percent Democrat: 73.9%
$ Democrat Amount Per Capita: $3.15
# Democrat Contributions Per Capita: 0.03
More on Bellwood: Data
Bellwood is a village in Proviso Township, Cook County, Illinois, United States. Located 13 miles west of Chicago’s downtown Loop, the Village of Bellwood is bounded by the Eisenhower Expressway, the Proviso yards of the former Chicago & Northwestern, now Union Pacific Railroad, and the suburbs of Maywood and Hillside and Berkeley. The population was 19,071 at the 2010 census.
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Population: 7,226
Percent Democrat: 73.9%
$ Democrat Amount Per Capita: $44.92
# Democrat Contributions Per Capita: 0.37
More on Orland Hills: Data
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Population: 9,357
Percent Democrat: 73.9%
$ Democrat Amount Per Capita: $7.35
# Democrat Contributions Per Capita: 0.18
More on Lynwood: Data
Summing Up The Liberal Snowflakes in Illinois
Well there you have it, the places in Illinois that have the highest number of liberals per capita, with Lansing ranking as the least conservative in the entire state.
If you’re curious, here are the least liberal cities in Illinois:
- Effingham
- Vandalia
- Watseka
For more Illinois reading, check out:
- 10 Best Places To Live In Illinois
- These Are The 10 Best Counties To Live In Illinois
- 10 Cheapest Places To Live In Illinois
- 10 Best Places To Raise A Family In Illinois
- These Are The 10 Best Places To Retire In Illinois
- These Are The 10 Richest Cities In Illinois
- 10 Safest Places In Illinois
- 10 Worst Places To Live In Illinois
