Uplands Park, Missouri is a small city located in St. Louis County, with a population of just over 1,000 people. The city has a mayor-council form of government, with the mayor as the chief executive and members of the council representing different wards within the city. The mayor and council are responsible for setting public policy and enacting laws that affect residents of Uplands Park. Residents vote for local political candidates in municipal elections to decide who will represent them on the council and serve as mayor. Local political issues focus mainly on maintaining infrastructure, managing budgets, expanding economic development opportunities, and providing services to citizens. In recent years, debates have also emerged around social issues such as gun control and police reform. Residents take an active interest in their local politics through voting in municipal elections and attending town hall meetings where decisions are discussed and voted upon.
The political climate in Uplands Park, MO is strongly liberal.
St. Louis County, MO is moderately liberal. In St. Louis County, MO 61.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 37.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, St. Louis county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 61.2% to 37.2%.
St. Louis county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Uplands Park, MO is strongly liberal.
St. Louis County, Missouri is moderately liberal.
St. Louis Metro Area is leaning liberal.
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.
Uplands Park, Missouri: 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 Uplands Park, MO
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,792 contributions totaling $128,842 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $72 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 88 contributions totaling $22,872 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $260 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)