Story City, IA is a small town with a population of about 2,000 people. It is a close-knit community with a great sense of civic pride. The politics in Story City are based around local issues that have an impact on the daily lives of citizens. Every election cycle, local political candidates come forward to face the residents’ scrutiny and present their platforms with hopes of garnering enough votes to secure a seat in city government. Issues such as taxes, infrastructure, job creation, and education are all important to the residents of Story City and each candidate has their own unique viewpoint on how to best tackle these issues. Ultimately, it is up to the voters to decide who will represent them and make sure their voice is heard when decisions are made in city hall.
The political climate in Story City, IA is leaning liberal.
Story County, IA is moderately liberal. In Story County, IA 57.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 39.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 3.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Story county remained very strongly Democratic, 57.2% to 39.9%.
Story county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Story City, IA is leaning liberal.
Story County, Iowa is moderately liberal.
Ames Metro Area is moderately liberal.
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.
Story City, Iowa: d d D D D D
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 Story City, IA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 116 contributions totaling $4,316 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $37 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 134 contributions totaling $21,804 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $163 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)