Cambridge, Iowa is located in Story County and is governed by a five-member City Council. The city council members are elected for three year terms and serve on a part-time basis. The mayor of Cambridge is elected at large and serves a two-year term. The Cambridge City Council meets twice each month to discuss issues impacting the community. These meetings are open to the public and provide citizens with the opportunity to voice their opinions or concerns about topics impacting the city. Cambridge takes pride in its active citizen engagement and encourages citizens to participate in local politics and government initiatives.
The political climate in Cambridge, IA is leaning conservative.
Story County, IA is moderately liberal. In Story County, IA 57.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 39.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 3.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Story county remained very strongly Democratic, 57.2% to 39.9%.
Story county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Cambridge, IA is leaning conservative.
Story County, Iowa is moderately liberal.
Ames Metro Area is moderately liberal.
Iowa 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.
Cambridge, Iowa: 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 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 Cambridge, IA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 199 contributions totaling $27,367 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $138 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 16 contributions totaling $14,260 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $891 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)