Roland, Iowa is a small town that prides itself on its strong sense of community and local involvement. The town’s politics are focused on the welfare and betterment of the citizens living there, with a particular emphasis on bringing together all the different people who make up Roland’s diverse population. Local elections are held regularly so that residents can cast their votes for the candidates they believe will best represent them in terms of their political views and goals for the town. Political candidates in Roland generally focus on issues such as improving infrastructure, increasing public safety, maintaining adequate resource funding, and promoting civic engagement in order to ensure that everyone’s needs are being met and addressed. Elections in Roland often bring out lively debates among the candidates about how to achieve these goals without raising taxes or cutting services while still providing necessary resources to those who need them most.
The political climate in Roland, 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
Roland, 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.
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 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 Roland, IA
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)