Arlington, IA is a small town located in the southwestern corner of Iowa with a population of around 1,000 people. It is governed by an elected mayor and four city council members who serve three-year terms. The current mayor of Arlington is Bill Johnson and the city council members are Robert Surber, Grace Miller, Tom Smith, and Jenny Anderson. All four members are dedicated to making sure that Arlington remains a great place to live and work while also promoting business development. Together they make sure that the town has quality infrastructure, safe neighborhoods, and reasonable taxes for its citizens. They have made it their mission to keep Arlington a vibrant community with ample recreational opportunities for everyone to enjoy.
The political climate in Zip 50606 (Arlington, IA) is strongly conservative.
Fayette County, IA is moderately conservative. In Fayette County, IA 37.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 60.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Fayette county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 60.3% to 37.6%.
Fayette county voted Republican again in 2020, after voting Democratic in 2012, 2008, and 2004.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 50606 (Arlington, IA) is strongly conservative.
Arlington, Iowa is strongly conservative.
Fayette 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.
Arlington, Iowa: 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 50606 (Arlington)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 7 contributions totaling $1,700 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $243 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 45 contributions totaling $5,982 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $133 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)