Edgewood, IA (52042) is a small town in Delaware County with a population of just over 800 people. The community is served by a mayor-council system of government and the current mayor is Nancy Floss. The town council consists of five members elected to serve four-year terms on a rotating basis. Local political candidates for Edgewood are typically chosen through an open nomination process where any resident can put their name forward for consideration. This ensures that citizens have a say in who represents them and keeps politics local and transparent. The local government focuses on providing essential services to the community and making decisions that benefit all residents. Edgewood prides itself on being an engaged and active citizenry with plenty of opportunities for everyone to get involved in local decision-making processes and help shape the future of their community.
The political climate in Zip 52042 (Edgewood, IA) is strongly conservative.
Clayton County, IA is strongly conservative. In Clayton County, IA 34.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 63.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Clayton county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 63.6% to 34.8%.
Clayton county voted Republican in the two most recent Presidential elections, after voting Democratic in the previous four.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 52042 (Edgewood, IA) is strongly conservative.
Edgewood, Iowa is strongly conservative.
Clayton 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.
Edgewood, 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 52042 (Edgewood)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 54 contributions totaling $12,122 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $224 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 9 contributions totaling $12,500 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $1,389 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)