Zearing, IA is a small town located in Story County, Iowa with an estimated population of about 1,000 people. It is a quiet and peaceful community with strong family values. Due to its small size, there are not many political candidates in Zearing. The local government is made up of the Mayor and four City Council members who are elected at-large to serve four-year terms. The current mayor is John Smith and the City Council members are Jeff Adams, Kim Lee, Bill Smith and Mary Anderson. All of the elected officials strive to improve the quality of life for all residents of Zearing by promoting economic development initiatives and making sure that public services are adequate. They also strive to maintain a safe environment for everyone in the community while keeping taxes low and maintaining fiscal responsibility.
The political climate in Zip 50278 (Zearing, IA) is leaning liberal.
Story County, IA is moderately liberal. In Story County, IA 57.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 39.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 3.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Story county remained very strongly Democratic, 57.2% to 39.9%.
Story county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 50278 (Zearing, IA) is leaning liberal.
Zearing, Iowa is leaning liberal.
Story County, Iowa is moderately liberal.
Ames Metro Area is moderately liberal.
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.
Zearing, Iowa: d d D D D D
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 50278 (Zearing)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 4 contributions totaling $2,075 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $519 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 16 contributions totaling $1,750 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $109 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)