The small city of Wahoo, Nebraska is located in Saunders County and is home to around 1,600 people. It is part of the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area and is served by a mayor-council government. The current mayor of Wahoo is Larry Braden who was elected into office in 2016 and reelected in 2020. He has been instrumental in leading efforts to improve public safety for members of the community by adding additional police officers, installing new street lighting, and implementing new traffic control measures. In addition to the mayor, there are five council members that serve on the City Council: Joe Smith, Bill Johnson, Andrea Peterson, Mike Riha and Tom Miller. The council members work closely with the mayor to make decisions about Wahoo's future such as increasing job growth, improving infrastructure projects, and providing better educational opportunities for local children.
The political climate in Zip 68066 (Wahoo, NE) is very conservative.
Saunders County, NE is very conservative. In Saunders County, NE 26.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 71.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Saunders county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 71.2% to 26.1%.
Saunders county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 68066 (Wahoo, NE) is very conservative.
Wahoo, Nebraska is very conservative.
Saunders County, Nebraska is very conservative.
Omaha-Council Bluffs Metro Area is leaning conservative.
Nebraska is moderately 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.
Wahoo, Nebraska: 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 68066 (Wahoo)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 87 contributions totaling $4,431 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $51 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 80 contributions totaling $11,337 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $142 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)