La Jara, CO is a small town located in the San Luis Valley of Colorado with a population of 81140 people. The local politics in La Jara are centered around its city mayor and town council. The mayor is currently Julio Trujillo and he is supported by four other city council members. These five politicians work together to make decisions regarding the town’s budget, infrastructure development, education reforms and other important issues that may arise within the community. Additionally, they are responsible for ensuring that the citizens of La Jara are treated fairly and represented in their best interests. To keep up with local politics and find out more about what is happening in this small town, citizens can attend public briefings or participate in town hall meetings with their representatives at least twice a year.
The political climate in Zip 81140 (La Jara, CO) is somewhat conservative.
Conejos County, CO is leaning conservative. In Conejos County, CO 45.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 52.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Conejos county remained moderately Republican, 52.8% to 45.2%.
Conejos county voted Republican again in 2020, after voting Democratic in 2012, 2008, and 2004.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 81140 (La Jara, CO) is somewhat conservative.
La Jara, Colorado is somewhat conservative.
Conejos County, Colorado is leaning conservative.
Not Found Metro Area is 0.
Colorado is somewhat liberal.
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.
La Jara, Colorado: r 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 81140 (La Jara)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 10 contributions totaling $1,320 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $132 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 31 contributions totaling $4,538 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $146 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)