Brookfield, MO is a small city in Linn County with a long history of political involvement and civic engagement. The city government is managed by an elected mayor and four-person board of trustees. These local officials are responsible for making decisions that affect the quality of life for the citizens living in Brookfield. Additionally, Brookfield is home to many different organizations, advocacy groups, and electoral initiatives that support candidates running for local office. Each election season brings out residents eager to voice their opinions on local issues and back their favorite candidates. Political discourse in Brookfield is always lively, with residents coming together to discuss important topics like education reform, economic development, and infrastructure improvement.
The political climate in Brookfield, MO is moderately conservative.
Linn County, MO is very conservative. In Linn County, MO 22.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 76.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Linn county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 76.2% to 22.3%.
Linn county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Brookfield, MO is moderately conservative.
Linn County, Missouri is very conservative.
Missouri is somewhat 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.
Brookfield, Missouri: 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 Brookfield, MO
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 60 contributions totaling $5,605 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $93 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 51 contributions totaling $5,956 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $117 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)