The city of Maquoketa, IA (52060) is governed by a mayor-council form of government. The mayor is elected by the citizens of Maquoketa and is responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of the city. The council members are also elected by the citizens and are responsible for setting policies and establishing ordinances. Each council member represents one of five wards within the city. Currently, Larry Murphy serves as the mayor and Steve Niehaus, Mike Wiedner, Tim Bippes, Brad Shaw, and Mark Heine serve as council members. All five council members have been in office since 2016.
The city works hard to ensure that all its residents have easy access to information about local politics through their website and social media accounts. Additionally, there are often public meetings held on various topics throughout the year so that citizens can actively participate in decision making processes that affect them directly or indirectly. Through this commitment to openness and accessibility, Maquoketa has become a model for other small cities in Iowa when it comes to promoting civic engagement among its residents.
The political climate in Zip 52060 (Maquoketa, IA) is moderately conservative.
Jackson County, IA is strongly conservative. In Jackson County, IA 36.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 62.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Jackson county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 62.3% to 36.2%.
Jackson county voted Republican in the two most recent Presidential elections, after voting Democratic in the previous four.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 52060 (Maquoketa, IA) is moderately conservative.
Maquoketa, Iowa is moderately conservative.
Jackson County, Iowa is strongly 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.
Maquoketa, 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 52060 (Maquoketa)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 149 contributions totaling $15,306 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $103 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 60 contributions totaling $5,244 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $87 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)