Located in Black Hawk County, IA, the rural population of 50643 Hudson is largely conservative and leans towards Republican candidates. The area is represented by U.S Representatives Rod Blum in the 1st Congressional District and Steve King in the 4th Congressional District. On the state level, local residents are represented by Senator Jim Carlin in the 35th Senate District and Representative Mike Breitbach in the 55th House District. In local politics, there are no current city council members from Hudson since it is an unincorporated community; however, George Richardson serves as a Black Hawk County Supervisor for Supervisory district one which includes Hudson. Generally speaking, voters within 50643 support more traditionally conservative policies such as fiscal responsibility and smaller government.
The political climate in Zip 50643 (Hudson, IA) is leaning conservative.
Black Hawk County, IA is somewhat liberal. In Black Hawk County, IA 53.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 44.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Black Hawk county remained moderately Democratic, 53.5% to 44.5%.
Black Hawk county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 50643 (Hudson, IA) is leaning conservative.
Hudson, Iowa is leaning conservative.
Black Hawk County, Iowa is somewhat liberal.
Waterloo-Cedar Falls 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.
Hudson, 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 50643 (Hudson)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 46 contributions totaling $1,440 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $31 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 33 contributions totaling $4,785 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $145 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)