Rensselaer, Missouri is an unincorporated community in southwestern Ralls County. As it is an unincorporated community, there are no local political candidates to include in this paragraph. Instead, Rensselaer residents vote for their representatives in the state government. These representatives from Rensselaer generally align with the Republican party, though there are a few Democratic-aligned seats that have been held by locals in the past. In addition to voting for their respective state representatives, Rensselaer citizens also vote regularly on important local matters such as school levies and tax initiatives. This ensures that the local population can maintain its desired quality of living and continue to have a say in how their town operates.
The political climate in Rensselaer, MO is very conservative.
Ralls County, MO is very conservative. In Ralls County, MO 21.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 77.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Ralls county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 77.6% to 21.3%.
Ralls county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Rensselaer, MO is very conservative.
Ralls County, Missouri is very conservative.
Hannibal Metro Area is very conservative.
Missouri is somewhat 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.
Rensselaer, Missouri: 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 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 Rensselaer, MO
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 422 contributions totaling $74,361 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $176 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 156 contributions totaling $23,521 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $151 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)