The town of 52218 Coggon, IA is a small community in Linn County with a population of around 1,000 people. It is an unincorporated area and therefore does not have any local political candidates running for office. Despite the lack of formal representation at the local level, politics still impacts the daily lives of 52218 Coggon residents. The town is governed by the Linn County Board of Supervisors which enacts laws and sets policies that affect all county residents. Additionally, important national and state-wide issues can impact the lives of people living in Coggon. Federal election results and state legislation both have the potential to directly influence the community and its inhabitants. While there are no local elections taking place in Coggon, it's important to ensure that residents are politically engaged so they can participate in larger conversations on issues that could potentially affect them.
The political climate in Zip 52218 (Coggon, IA) is leaning conservative.
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 52218 (Coggon, IA) is leaning conservative.
Coggon, Iowa is leaning conservative.
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.
Coggon, 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 52218 (Coggon)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 11 contributions totaling $265 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $24 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 27 contributions totaling $5,340 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $198 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)