Kossuth County in Iowa is a small rural county, with a population of around 15,000 people. It is governed by the Board of Supervisors, which consists of five members who are each elected to represent one of the five districts in the county. The Board works together to set policy and budgets for the county's government services, and implements laws that affect all citizens within Kossuth County. Each Supervisor is also responsible for representing their constituents at public meetings on local issues, such as zoning changes and building permits. In addition, the local political landscape is active with numerous candidates running for office in each election cycle. The primary focus of these candidates is generally on issues that impact residents within Kossuth County directly, such as economic development, health care access and public safety initiatives.
The political climate in Kossuth County, IA is very conservative.
In Kossuth 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, Kossuth county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 69.0% to 29.7%.
Kossuth county voted Republican in five of the last six Presidential elections (2008 went Democratic).
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Kossuth 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.
Kossuth, Iowa: r r d 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 Kossuth County, IA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,637 contributions totaling $49,286 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $30 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 99 contributions totaling $19,503 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $197 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)