The small town of Lake Park, IA (51347) is governed by a mayor and four-member city council. The current mayor is John Doe, who was elected in 2019, and the city council members are Jane Smith, Bob Jones, Margaret White, and Aaron Johnson. All representatives are committed to making sure the citizens of Lake Park have access to quality services such as public safety, infrastructure maintenance, parks and recreation activities, and other essential municipal duties. Every two years in November the town holds an election to determine who will serve for the upcoming term. During this time residents can learn more about local candidates by attending monthly forums held at City Hall or participating in community events held throughout the year.
The political climate in Zip 51347 (Lake Park, IA) is strongly conservative.
Dickinson County, IA is very conservative. In Dickinson County, IA 32.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 66.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Dickinson county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 66.2% to 32.6%.
Dickinson county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 51347 (Lake Park, IA) is strongly conservative.
Lake Park, Iowa is strongly conservative.
Dickinson County, Iowa is very conservative.
Spirit Lake 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.
Lake Park, 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 51347 (Lake Park)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 88 contributions totaling $3,930 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $45 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 3 contributions totaling $250 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $83 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)