Cedar Rapids, IA 52401 is a city located in Linn County in the state of Iowa. Politically speaking, Cedar Rapids is a moderately conservative city with Republican candidates dominating most local leadership positions. The current mayor of Cedar Rapids is Brad Hart, who was elected to his position in 2018 and ran on a platform of fiscal responsibility and creating jobs for residents. At the state level, Iowa is represented in the United States Senate by Charles Grassley (R) and Joni Ernst (R). At the federal level, Cedar Rapids is represented in the House by Abby Finkenauer (D) and Dave Loebsack (D). Overall, Cedar Rapids has a good balance between Republican and Democratic representatives at both the state and federal levels.
The political climate in Zip 52401 (Cedar Rapids, IA) is somewhat liberal.
Linn County, IA is somewhat liberal. In Linn County, IA 55.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 41.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Linn county remained strongly Democratic, 55.6% to 41.9%.
Linn county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 52401 (Cedar Rapids, IA) is somewhat liberal.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa is somewhat liberal.
Linn County, Iowa is somewhat liberal.
Cedar Rapids Metro Area is leaning 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.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa: d d D D d D
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 52401 (Cedar Rapids)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 195 contributions totaling $69,618 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $357 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 54 contributions totaling $11,800 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $219 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)