Monona County, Iowa is a rural area with many small cities and towns scattered throughout. The county seat is Onawa which houses the Monona County Courthouse. Politics in Monona County are mainly handled by local town boards and county officials. Each town has its own mayor, council members, city manager, and other members of the local government. The larger cities in Monona include Onawa, Mapleton, and Whiting while some of the smaller towns include Soldier, Ute, Moorhead and Turin. All of these towns have elected mayors that run local government as well as representatives from each town that serve on the Monona County Board of Supervisors. These supervisors help determine budgets for the county as well as implement regulations related to zoning, taxes, utilities and more. Additionally, there are many local elections held throughout the year that allow citizens to vote on who will represent them in various roles in their hometowns.
The political climate in Monona County, IA is very conservative.
In Monona County, IA 29.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 68.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Monona county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 68.7% to 29.8%.
Monona county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Monona 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.
Monona, 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 Monona County, IA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 169 contributions totaling $8,855 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $52 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 126 contributions totaling $18,663 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $148 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)