The city of Jeanerette, Louisiana, located in Iberia Parish, is home to a population of 4,701 people. While the city may be small compared to other areas in the state, the politics of Jeanerette still play an important role in shaping its community. The city is led by Mayor Julius Alsandor and has been since 2014. The City Council for Jeanerette consists of seven members elected to four year terms who each represent a specific district in the city. Additionally, the citizens of Jeanerette are represented by State Senator Fred Mills Jr., Representative Charles Jones Jr., and U.S. Representative Clay Higgins at the state and federal level respectively. Local elections are held every two years so that citizens can participate in choosing their representatives and continue to have a voice when it comes to policy changes within their municipality.
The political climate in Zip 70544 (Jeanerette, LA) is moderately conservative.
Iberia County, LA is strongly conservative. In Iberia County, LA 33.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 65.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Iberia parish remained overwhelmingly Republican, 65.0% to 33.7%.
Iberia county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 70544 (Jeanerette, LA) is moderately conservative.
Jeanerette, Louisiana is moderately conservative.
Iberia County, Louisiana is strongly conservative.
Lafayette Metro Area is very conservative.
Louisiana is moderately 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.
Jeanerette, Louisiana: 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 70544 (Jeanerette)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 43 contributions totaling $6,973 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $162 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 55 contributions totaling $39,784 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $723 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)