Bremer County, Iowa, is a small rural county located in the north-central part of the state. Its government is run by an elected Board of Supervisors, who are responsible for setting and implementing policy for the county. It also has a Sheriff's Department that oversees public safety, and deals with criminal issues throughout the area. The county also has several local political candidates running in various elections throughout the year. These candidates range from city council members to representatives for Congress or state government offices. Each candidate brings their own distinct approach to governing Bremer County and citizens can get informed about each candidate’s views on important issues before voting. In addition, Bremer County also offers an online voter registration system so residents can quickly and easily register to vote and take part in their local politics.
The political climate in Bremer County, IA is somewhat conservative.
In Bremer County, IA 41.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 57.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Bremer county remained very strongly Republican, 57.0% to 41.0%.
Bremer county voted Republican in four of the six previous Presidential elections (2008 and 2012 went Democratic).
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Bremer County, IA is somewhat conservative.
Waterloo-Cedar Falls Metro Area is leaning 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.
Bremer, Iowa: r r d d 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 for the Democrat and I for the Independent. 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 Bremer County, IA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 777 contributions totaling $30,931 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $40 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 289 contributions totaling $68,363 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $237 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)