Sheldahl, IA is a small rural town in Central Iowa. Politically, the town is largely conservative and traditionally votes for Republican candidates. The local government is made up of a Mayor-Council system with the mayor as the head of government and the council serving as legislators. There has been no recent controversy surrounding politics in Sheldahl, IA and local politics tend to be low-key and uncontroversial. Despite its small size, Sheldahl, IA still takes part in the democratic process and maintains an active political scene.
The political climate in Sheldahl, 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
Sheldahl, IA is leaning conservative.
Story County, Iowa 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.
Sheldahl, 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 Sheldahl, IA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 392 contributions totaling $54,421 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $139 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 85 contributions totaling $23,655 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $278 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)