The city of 52136 Cresco, IA is served by a local government that works hard to ensure the safety and well-being of its community. The city is represented at the state level by two senators and one House representative who are elected by the people of Cresco. At the county level, three commissioners representing Cresco are elected to serve on the Howard County Board of Supervisors. Locally, Cresco has a mayor who is elected every four years by the citizens along with a five member City Council. The Council meets monthly to discuss issues concerning the well-being of the city’s residents. The city also holds elections for various other positions such as police chief, fire chief, parks director, and treasurer. All these roles work together to ensure that citizens in Cresco receive quality services from their local government.
The political climate in Zip 52136 (Cresco, IA) is strongly conservative.
Howard County, IA is strongly conservative. In Howard County, IA 35.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 63.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Howard county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 63.1% to 35.7%.
Howard county voted Republican in the two most recent Presidential elections, after voting Democratic in the previous four.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 52136 (Cresco, IA) is strongly conservative.
Cresco, Iowa is strongly conservative.
Howard County, Iowa is strongly 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.
Cresco, Iowa: D 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 52136 (Cresco)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 86 contributions totaling $19,012 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $221 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 55 contributions totaling $15,720 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $286 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)