Cape Girardeau County is located in southeastern Missouri and is part of the Cape Girardeau–Jackson, MO-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county is governed by a board of commissioners, which is composed of seven members who are elected to serve three-year terms. The current group of commissioners consists of three Republicans and four Democrats. In addition to local government, there are several state representatives and senators who represent Cape Girardeau County at the state level. Local political candidates for upcoming elections include incumbent Carl Ethall and challengers Robert Fortsch, Tana Clark, and Richard Cook. Issues that have been discussed in recent elections include economic growth, education reform, and public safety initiatives.
The political climate in Cape Girardeau County, MO is very conservative.
In Cape Girardeau County, MO 26.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 71.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Cape Girardeau county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 71.5% to 26.6%.
Cape Girardeau county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Cape Girardeau County, MO is very conservative.
Cape Girardeau Metro Area is very conservative.
Missouri is somewhat 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.
Cape Girardeau, Missouri: 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 Cape Girardeau County, MO
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,950 contributions totaling $191,325 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $98 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 751 contributions totaling $415,730 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $554 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)