The small town of Ashland, Missouri has a population of approximately 3,300 people. In terms of politics, the city is represented at the state and federal level by elected officials belonging to both major political parties. At the federal level, Republican Senator Roy Blunt and Democrat Representative Emanuel Cleaver II are responsible for representing Ashland's interests in Congress. On the state level, Republican Senator Denny Hoskins and Representative Warren Love provide representation in Jefferson City. The town also elects local government officials from both parties to represent their citizens on matters such as taxes, infrastructure, and services. The election process takes place every two years and citizens are encouraged to participate in order to ensure their voices are heard when it comes to local issues that affect them directly.
The political climate in Zip 65010 (Ashland, MO) is leaning liberal.
Boone County, MO is somewhat liberal. In Boone County, MO 54.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 42.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Boone county remained strongly Democratic, 54.8% to 42.3%.
Boone county voted Democratic in five of the last six Presidential elections (2004 went Republican).
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 65010 (Ashland, MO) is leaning liberal.
Ashland, Missouri is leaning liberal.
Boone County, Missouri is somewhat liberal.
Columbia Metro Area is somewhat liberal.
Missouri is somewhat 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.
Ashland, Missouri: d r 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 65010 (Ashland)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 521 contributions totaling $26,013 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $50 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 73 contributions totaling $5,261 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $72 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)