Gladbrook, Iowa (50635) is a small town with a rich history. Located in Tama County, Gladbrook has long been known as an agricultural community with a strong family values oriented culture. Politically, Gladbrook is mainly conservative and Republican-leaning. In the most recent elections, all local political candidates ran on platforms of promoting Gladbrook’s traditional values and supporting the families within the community. The majority of residents remain supportive of these ideas and thus vote for the same candidates every election cycle. Issues that are important to Gladbrook citizens include education reform, economic growth, public safety, infrastructure improvement, and health care access. Residents continue to support their local elected officials who strive to implement policies which will make life better for everyone in the town of Gladbrook.
The political climate in Zip 50635 (Gladbrook, IA) is moderately conservative.
Tama County, IA is moderately conservative. In Tama County, IA 39.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 58.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Tama county remained very strongly Republican, 58.6% to 39.5%.
Tama county voted Republican in the two most recent Presidential elections, after voting Democratic in the previous four.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 50635 (Gladbrook, IA) is moderately conservative.
Gladbrook, Iowa is moderately conservative.
Tama County, Iowa is moderately 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.
Gladbrook, 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 50635 (Gladbrook)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 0 contributions totaling $0 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $0 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 34 contributions totaling $7,970 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $234 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)