Monona, IA is a small town located in Clayton County with a population of approximately 1,600 people. The local politics in Monona are largely focused on issues that directly impact the community such as public safety, infrastructure and economic development. Monona is served by an elected mayor and city council who work together to ensure that the town’s needs are met. The current mayor is John Brown and the members of the city council include Rob Anderson, Donna Mitchell, Nick Schmitz, Cindy Smith, Nancy Tiedeman and Jim Woodruff. Together they strive to make sure that Monona remains a safe and vibrant community for its citizens.
The political climate in Zip 52159 (Monona, IA) is strongly conservative.
Clayton County, IA is strongly conservative. In Clayton County, IA 34.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 63.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Clayton county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 63.6% to 34.8%.
Clayton county voted Republican in the two most recent Presidential elections, after voting Democratic in the previous four.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 52159 (Monona, IA) is strongly conservative.
Monona, Iowa is strongly conservative.
Clayton 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.
Monona, 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 52159 (Monona)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 31 contributions totaling $892 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $29 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 27 contributions totaling $10,939 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $405 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)