Bedford, Iowa is a small rural town located in Taylor County, Iowa. It's a quiet and peaceful town where the locals prefer to keep their politics private. Despite this, the town does participate in local elections and has representation at the state level. Bedford is part of the Iowa House of Representatives District 26 which is represented by Republican Megan Jones. The town also sends two representatives to represent it in the state senate with Republican Bill Anderson and Democrat Kevin Kinney both currently serving. The council members that make up the Bedford City Council are also elected by community members and serve for a set term. Overall, politics in Bedford is an important aspect of life as it allows residents to have their voices heard and shape their community through electing those who they feel will best represent them.
The political climate in Bedford, IA is strongly conservative.
Taylor County, IA is very conservative. In Taylor County, IA 23.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 75.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Taylor county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 75.8% to 23.0%.
Taylor county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Bedford, IA is strongly conservative.
Taylor County, Iowa is very 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.
Bedford, Iowa: 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 Bedford, IA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 9 contributions totaling $693 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $77 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 5 contributions totaling $660 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $132 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)