The small town of Mount Ayr, IA (zip code 50854) is located in Ringgold County and is home to a population of 1,165 people. Despite its small size and rural location, the community of Mount Ayr is quite politically active. Every election season, the town sees a variety of local political candidates vying for positions ranging from mayor to supervisor. The citizens are deeply involved in governmental matters and take their responsibility as voters seriously. Each candidate has some unique ideas about how to make things better for the people of Mount Ayr, and it's these great ideas that keep the public engaged during election time. It's a testament to the importance that politics have in this small town.
The political climate in Zip 50854 (Mount Ayr, IA) is very conservative.
Ringgold County, IA is very conservative. In Ringgold County, IA 26.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 72.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Ringgold county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 72.5% to 26.1%.
Ringgold county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 50854 (Mount Ayr, IA) is very conservative.
Mount Ayr, Iowa is very conservative.
Ringgold County, Iowa is very conservative.
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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.
Mount Ayr, Iowa: 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 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 50854 (Mount Ayr)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2 contributions totaling $300 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $150 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 15 contributions totaling $1,499 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $100 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)