Cass, MO is a small town located in central Missouri. It has a local government that is responsible for managing the affairs of the community, including ordinances and other decisions that affect the area's citizens. The Cass City Council is made up of five council members who are elected every two years by residents of the city. Among the issues voted on by the council are zoning regulations, public safety initiatives, budgets for local services, and funding for various projects. The current mayor of Cass is Jack Johnson who was elected in 2020. The town also has two state representatives in Missouri's House of Representatives; Dave Griggs and Ann Lewis. Both work to ensure their constituents' interests are represented at the state level. Cass also has three precincts within its boundaries that have their own elections for county offices such as sheriff, recorder of deeds, assessor, and treasurer. Working together with their local government representatives, citizens from Cass strive to make their community a better place to live.
The political climate in Cass, MO is very conservative.
Texas County, MO is very conservative. In Texas County, MO 15.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 83.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Texas county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 83.8% to 15.2%.
Texas county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Cass, MO is very conservative.
Texas 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.
Cass, 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 Cass, MO
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 320 contributions totaling $35,848 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $112 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 188 contributions totaling $40,741 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $217 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)