Joice, IA is a small town located in Worth County with a population of just over 500 people. It has a mayor-council form of government, with the Mayor as the head of the executive branch and six council members who form the legislative branch. The current Mayor is Dale Hoyt and the current City Council Members are Jeff Teslow, Lesa Zobel, Taylor Folkerts, Kelly Schipper, Delores Johnson and Harold Dronen. The town's political scene is relatively quiet with no major issues or controversies to report. However, they recently approved a grant from the state that should help improve local infrastructure in the coming years. Joice residents are proud to be able to take part in local politics and make decisions that directly affect their community.
The political climate in Zip 50446 (Joice, IA) is strongly conservative.
Worth County, IA is strongly conservative. In Worth County, IA 36.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 62.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Worth county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 62.0% to 36.1%.
Worth county voted Republican in the two most recent Presidential elections, after voting Democratic in the previous four.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 50446 (Joice, IA) is strongly conservative.
Joice, Iowa is strongly conservative.
Worth County, Iowa is strongly conservative.
Mason City Metro Area is somewhat 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.
Joice, 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 50446 (Joice)
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 3 contributions totaling $390 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $130 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)