The town of Chariton, Iowa is a small community located in Lucas County. Politically, the city leans right with a majority voting for the Republican Party. While there are no local political candidates at this time, the citizens generally come together to make decisions that benefit their community. Local elections in Chariton involve a focus on issues such as taxation policies, infrastructure investments, and public safety initiatives. The current mayor is Tom Springer and the deputy mayor is Donnie Bowers. The town council is made up of five members: Bob Valentino, Jeff Swanson, Allen Mapes, Lola Winters and Thomas Tate. Despite its small size, Chariton is politically engaged and puts great care into ensuring that all voices are heard when it comes to making important decisions for the community.
The political climate in Chariton, IA is moderately conservative.
Lucas County, IA is very conservative. In Lucas County, IA 27.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 71.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Lucas county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 71.0% to 27.7%.
Lucas county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Chariton, IA is moderately conservative.
Lucas 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.
Chariton, 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 Chariton, IA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 34 contributions totaling $1,490 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $44 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 79 contributions totaling $7,628 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $97 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)