Carlisle, IA is a small town in Warren County with an estimated population of 2,719. It serves as the county seat and has a local government that consists of a mayor and four city council members. The mayor and the council members are elected by the citizens of Carlisle to represent their interests at City Hall. The local government works towards providing its residents with quality services such as access to clean water, maintaining public spaces and infrastructure, and ensuring public safety. Additionally, they lobby for grants from higher levels of government to support economic development initiatives in their community. Carlisle is also home to several state representatives who advocate for the needs of their constituents on the state level. Every election season sees campaigning from all levels of political candidates hoping to gain favor with the people living in Carlisle so that they can be chosen to lead it into a prosperous future.
The political climate in Zip 50047 (Carlisle, IA) is moderately conservative.
Warren County, IA is moderately conservative. In Warren County, IA 40.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 57.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Warren county remained very strongly Republican, 57.3% to 40.5%.
Warren county voted Republican in five of the last six Presidential elections (2008 went Democratic).
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 50047 (Carlisle, IA) is moderately conservative.
Carlisle, Iowa is moderately conservative.
Warren County, Iowa is moderately conservative.
Des Moines-West Des Moines Metro Area is somewhat liberal.
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.
Carlisle, Iowa: r r d 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 zip 50047 (Carlisle)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 239 contributions totaling $10,141 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $42 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 31 contributions totaling $9,012 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $291 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)