The small town of 51450 Lake View, IA has seen a great deal of political change in recent years. Political candidates have come and gone, leaving the residents to decide who they would like to represent them. The current mayor, Joan Smith, is a popular figure and has been in office for the past four years. She has been a major advocate for economic growth and development within the town, and her plans for the future are sure to benefit local citizens. Other political candidates have focused on improving infrastructure, such as roads and bridges, while still others have sought to better the education opportunities available for students in Lake View. Regardless of which issues each candidate chooses to prioritize, all of them have come together with one purpose: to make life better for everyone who calls 51450 Lake View home.
The political climate in Zip 51450 (Lake View, IA) is very conservative.
Sac County, IA is very conservative. In Sac County, IA 25.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 73.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Sac county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 73.4% to 25.1%.
Sac county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 51450 (Lake View, IA) is very conservative.
Lake View, Iowa is very conservative.
Sac County, Iowa is very 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.
Lake View, 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 51450 (Lake View)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 668 contributions totaling $30,194 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $45 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 78 contributions totaling $9,790 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $126 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)