The Muscatine, IA Metro Area is a vibrant community that is home to numerous businesses, organizations, and educational institutions. Politically, the area is represented by a variety of local governments including a mayor-council form of government for the city itself and county board members who serve on the Muscatine County Board of Supervisors. Residents of Muscatine have the opportunity to participate in local politics by casting their vote in elections for mayors, city council members, school board members, county supervisors, and other offices as they become available. Additionally civic organizations such as the Muscatine League of Women Voters are active in encouraging voter participation and providing forums where residents can discuss current issues facing their community. By engaging in local elections and civic engagement activities, citizens of the Muscatine Metro Area play an important role in helping shape the future of their communities.
The political climate in Muscatine Metro Area is leaning conservative.
In Muscatine Metro Area 45.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 52.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, the Muscatine metro area remained moderately Republican, 52.4% to 45.3%.
The Muscatine metro area voted Republican in the two most recent Presidential elections, after voting Democratic in the previ.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Muscatine 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.
Muscatine, Iowa: d d D D 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 four elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in Muscatine Metro Area
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 879 contributions totaling $113,792 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $129 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 593 contributions totaling $241,065 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $407 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)