Valmeyer, IL is a small village located in Randolph County with a population of about 1,500 people. The local government is comprised of a six-member Board of Trustees and the Mayor, all elected at-large for four-year terms on odd years. The current mayor is Dennis Knobloch, who has been serving since 2017. Their focus consists largely of maintaining the infrastructure and services to the community such as street repairs, park maintenance, and water/sewer services. Valmeyer also works hard to protect their natural resources such as the bluffs that give this area so much beauty. The board values transparency in their decision making processes and openly welcomes input from its citizens in order to serve them better.
The political climate in Valmeyer, IL is strongly conservative.
Monroe County, IL is very conservative. In Monroe County, IL 31.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 66.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Monroe county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 66.7% to 31.0%.
Monroe county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Valmeyer, IL is strongly conservative.
Monroe County, Illinois is very conservative.
St. Louis Metro Area is leaning 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.
Valmeyer, Illinois: R R R 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 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 Valmeyer, IL
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 350 contributions totaling $28,380 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $81 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 178 contributions totaling $80,668 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $453 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)