McGregor, Iowa is a small town located in Clayton County. It has a long history of being involved in local politics and engaging its citizens to get involved. The town’s current mayor is Tom Hoppe who was elected in 2019 and serves as the local leader. Other members of the town council who serve three-year terms include Roberta Metzger, Bill Starkey, Richard Crosby, and Mary Ann Cook. The city council meetings are held on the third Tuesday of each month at 6:30 pm in the City Hall building. These meetings allow the public to express their opinions and concerns and give feedback on any issues that may arise within the community.
Overall, McGregor takes pride in its active political engagement with its citizens taking part in many elections over the years. The town works hard to ensure that everyone's voice is heard when it comes to important matters affecting the community's future. The elected officials work diligently to make sure that all decisions made are made with their constituents' best interests at heart.
The political climate in McGregor, IA is strongly conservative.
Clayton County, IA is strongly conservative. In Clayton County, IA 34.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 63.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Clayton county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 63.6% to 34.8%.
Clayton county voted Republican in the two most recent Presidential elections, after voting Democratic in the previous four.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
McGregor, IA is strongly conservative.
Clayton County, Iowa is strongly conservative.
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.
McGregor, Iowa: d d D d 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 McGregor, IA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 98 contributions totaling $5,599 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $57 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 21 contributions totaling $2,645 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $126 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)