Jesup, IA is a small city in northeastern Iowa with a population of around 4,100 people. It has its own City Council that is elected by the citizens to make decisions and policies that affect everyone living in the area. The current mayor is Michael Ralston who was first elected in 2014 and re-elected again in 2018. Other members of the City Council include Derek Anderson, Mary Adams, and Joe Lumbard. They are all dedicated to making Jesup a great place to live and ensuring that all citizens have access to quality services and resources from their local government. All political candidates for elections in Jesup are available online for research by anyone interested in learning more about them before casting their ballot.
The political climate in Zip 50648 (Jesup, IA) is moderately conservative.
Buchanan County, IA is moderately conservative. In Buchanan County, IA 38.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 59.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Buchanan county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 59.6% to 38.7%.
Buchanan county voted Republican in the two most recent Presidential elections, after voting Democratic in the previous four.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 50648 (Jesup, IA) is moderately conservative.
Jesup, Iowa is moderately conservative.
Buchanan County, Iowa is moderately 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.
Jesup, 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 three elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in zip 50648 (Jesup)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 91 contributions totaling $6,741 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $74 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 41 contributions totaling $12,900 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $315 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)