The small town of Everly, IA (51338) is a rural community located in Clay County. The town is home to a close-knit community and has a strong sense of pride in its local politics. The town comes together to ensure that their representative voices are heard and that their interests are taken into account. Every election cycle, local residents come out to the polls to cast their ballots for the candidates they feel best represent them and their values. During these elections, the community focuses on discussing issues such as public safety, taxes, social services, job creation, and economic development. Local political candidates strive to make sure that everyone has an opportunity to participate in the political process by creating forums where citizens can discuss the important issues facing them and find ways to make positive changes in their community. In this way, Everly is committed to ensuring that all of its citizens have a voice in how their town is governed.
The political climate in Zip 51338 (Everly, IA) is very conservative.
Clay County, IA is very conservative. In Clay County, IA 29.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 68.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Clay county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 68.4% to 29.7%.
Clay county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 51338 (Everly, IA) is very conservative.
Everly, Iowa is very conservative.
Clay County, Iowa is very conservative.
Spencer Metro Area is very conservative.
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.
Everly, Iowa: r R r 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 51338 (Everly)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2 contributions totaling $195 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $98 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 2 contributions totaling $1,300 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $650 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)