Round Lake Park, IL is a small village located in Lake County. The village has a mayor-council form of government and is led by Mayor Daniel MacGillis. The Village Council consists of six trustees from each of the four wards. They are responsible for policy making and the overall governance of the community. In terms of local politics, Round Lake Park residents are active and engaged in affairs that affect their community. They work with their elected officials to ensure that the needs of its citizens are met and their concerns heard. Elections for local offices are held every two years, giving residents a chance to choose who will represent them on Village Council. As well as electing local representatives, residents use the ballot to take action on important issues such as taxes, budgets, zoning laws and other matters that affect their daily lives. With a strong sense of civic duty within its population, Round Lake Park is an engaged community where residents take an active role in shaping its future.
The political climate in Round Lake Park, IL is somewhat liberal.
Lake County, IL is strongly liberal. In Lake County, IL 60.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 36.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Lake county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 60.8% to 36.8%.
Lake county voted Democratic in the four most recent Presidential elections, after 2000 and 2004 went Republican.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Round Lake Park, IL is somewhat liberal.
Lake County, Illinois is strongly liberal.
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin Metro Area is very liberal.
Illinois is moderately 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.
Round Lake Park, Illinois: r r 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 if the Democratic Party candidate won and I if the Independent Party candidate won. 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 Round Lake Park, IL
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 5,858 contributions totaling $449,148 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $77 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 686 contributions totaling $137,806 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $201 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)