The beautiful lakeside town of Okoboji in Dickinson County, IA is a great place to live and work. Politically, the town is part of Iowa's 4th Congressional District and is represented by Republican Randy Feenstra. At the state level, Okoboji is represented by Republicans Chuck Holz and Nancy Boettger in the Iowa House of Representatives and Senator Jim Carlin in the Iowa Senate. Local politics within Okoboji are managed by the Mayor and City Council members who are elected to serve four year terms. The current mayor is Jason Fleming who was reelected for a third term in November 2020. The town council works hard to ensure that all citizens have access to quality services such as garbage collection, roads maintenance, public safety, recreation facilities, libraries, community health care centers and more. With strong leadership from local politicians and community support from local businesses and citizens alike, Okoboji continues to be a wonderful place to live.
The political climate in Zip 51355 (Okoboji, 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 51355 (Okoboji, IA) is strongly conservative.
Okoboji, 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.
Okoboji, 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 51355 (Okoboji)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 30 contributions totaling $10,320 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $344 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 71 contributions totaling $40,504 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $570 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)