The politics in Rib Mountain, Wisconsin are centered around a city council of six members and a mayor. The city council consists of representatives from each of the four wards in the city, as well as the mayor who serves as an ex-officio member. The mayor and all council members are elected to serve two-year terms. Elections for the city council and mayor occur every two years on the first Tuesday in April. Those running for office must be residents of Rib Mountain and have been living in the municipality for at least 28 days prior to filing nomination papers. Issues discussed by the city council include public safety, infrastructure improvements, economic development, and other matters pertaining to the welfare of the community. In order to ensure that everyone’s voice is heard, citizens often participate by attending city council meetings or sharing their thoughts through surveys or petitions.
The political climate in Rib Mountain, WI is moderately conservative.
Marathon County, WI is moderately conservative. In Marathon County, WI 40.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 58.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Marathon county remained very strongly Republican, 58.1% to 40.1%.
Marathon county voted Republican in five of the last six Presidential elections (2008 went Democratic).
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Rib Mountain, WI is moderately conservative.
Marathon County, Wisconsin is moderately conservative.
Wausau-Weston Metro Area is moderately conservative.
Wisconsin is leaning liberal.
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.
Rib Mountain, Wisconsin: r r d 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 Rib Mountain, WI
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,906 contributions totaling $252,778 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $87 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,168 contributions totaling $360,280 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $308 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)