Cherokee, IA County is a small county in the Midwest United States. The county is governed by a five-member board of supervisors that works to ensure the safety and welfare of the citizens of Cherokee. Each supervisor is elected by their constituents and serves for a two year term. The Board of Supervisors are responsible for setting budget priorities, approving county policies, and creating ordinances to protect public health and safety. The county also has an elected Sheriff who oversees law enforcement in the area. Elections for local political offices take place every two years and draw candidates from both major parties who vie for votes from the community. In recent years, Cherokee County has become more politically diverse as candidates seek to represent the needs of all citizens in the area regardless of party affiliation.
The political climate in Cherokee County, IA is very conservative.
In Cherokee County, IA 29.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 69.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Cherokee county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 69.0% to 29.7%.
Cherokee county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Cherokee County, IA is very conservative.
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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.
Cherokee, Iowa: 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 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 Cherokee County, IA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 160 contributions totaling $5,297 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $33 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 272 contributions totaling $58,356 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $215 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)