Roland, IA, with its zip code of 50236 is a small town in Central Iowa. It is a part of the Story County area and has a population of around 1,500 people according to latest estimates. Politically, Roland typically votes Republican with most of its voters leaning conservative. In recent elections, Republican candidates have won by large margins over their Democratic counterparts in local races for office. In the upcoming election cycle, many prominent Republicans will be running for office in the area. These include state representatives and senators from the neighboring districts who are well-known for their stances on issues related to taxes, education, health care, and other important topics. The community members of Roland should pay close attention to these candidates as they make decisions that will affect them directly in the near future.
The political climate in Zip 50236 (Roland, IA) is leaning liberal.
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
Zip 50236 (Roland, IA) is leaning liberal.
Roland, Iowa is leaning liberal.
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.
Roland, 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 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 50236 (Roland)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 25 contributions totaling $1,239 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $50 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 18 contributions totaling $1,243 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $69 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)