Pottawattamie County is located in the state of Iowa and has a rich political history. The county is governed by a board of supervisors comprised of five members who serve rotating four-year terms. Additionally, local officials such as the treasurer, auditor, recorder and other positions are elected by the people to provide essential government services to their community. On the state level, Pottawattamie County is represented in both chambers of the Iowa Legislature by three senators and six representatives. Furthermore, citizens of Pottawattamie County vote for state wide offices from governor to attorney general every two years on election day. All these politicians work together to ensure that Pottawattamie County residents have access to quality public services and are able to make their voices heard at all levels of government.
The political climate in Pottawattamie County, IA is moderately conservative.
In Pottawattamie County, IA 40.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 57.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Pottawattamie county remained very strongly Republican, 57.4% to 40.6%.
Pottawattamie county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Pottawattamie County, IA is moderately conservative.
Omaha-Council Bluffs Metro Area is leaning conservative.
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.
Pottawattamie, 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 Pottawattamie County, IA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,426 contributions totaling $99,266 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $70 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,033 contributions totaling $448,632 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $434 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)