The small town of Morning Sun, IA 52640 is home to a close-knit community. The town does not have many political representatives due to its small population size, but the citizens are passionate about their local politics. The town is represented by a mayor and city council, all of whom strive to make decisions that benefit the town’s citizens as well as its businesses. In addition, Morning Sun holds regular community meetings that allow members of the public to voice their opinions or concerns on local matters. These meetings provide an open forum for discussion and dialogue between citizens and city officials. As such, Morning Sun's politics are driven by grassroots efforts rather than top-down decision making.
The political climate in Zip 52640 (Morning Sun, IA) is strongly conservative.
Louisa County, IA is very conservative. In Louisa County, IA 32.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 65.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Louisa county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 65.6% to 32.4%.
Louisa county voted Republican in 2020, 2016 and 2004, and Democratic in 2012, 2008 and 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 52640 (Morning Sun, IA) is strongly conservative.
Morning Sun, Iowa is strongly conservative.
Louisa 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.
Morning Sun, Iowa: d r 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 52640 (Morning Sun)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1 contributions totaling $0 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $0 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 10 contributions totaling $1,871 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $187 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)