What Cheer, IA, located in Keokuk County, is an unincorporated community with a population of just over 500 people. Despite its small size, the town is highly active politically. The local government consists of a three-member Board of Supervisors who are elected to four-year terms and manage the county’s finances and property. The Board of Supervisors also works closely with a number of advisory boards including those related to healthcare, education, public safety, and transportation. The town also holds regular elections for candidates within the area as well as school board members for all local schools. All elections are open to both local residents and non-residents alike. Residents in What Cheer take pride in exercising their right to vote and making sure that their voices are heard on important issues that affect them and their community.
The political climate in Zip 50268 (What Cheer, IA) is very conservative.
Keokuk County, IA is very conservative. In Keokuk County, IA 26.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 71.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Keokuk county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 71.6% to 26.7%.
Keokuk county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 50268 (What Cheer, IA) is very conservative.
What Cheer, Iowa is very conservative.
Keokuk 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.
What Cheer, 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 50268 (What Cheer)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 0 contributions totaling $0 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $0 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 4 contributions totaling $1,010 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $253 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)