Aurora, MO, located in Lawrence County, is a small city of about 5,000 people. Despite its small size, the city is highly political and engaged in local civic life. In 2019, three candidates ran for mayor: Mike Bishop, Larry Jones, and Kevin Harper. Current Mayor Harper was elected to his first term in 2015 and won again in 2019 with 57% of the vote. The city council consists of four members elected at-large for two-year terms. Recent elections have seen increasing voter turnout which reflects Aurora’s commitment to electing leaders who will representing their interests and advance the community through economic development and other initiatives.
The political climate in Zip 65605 (Aurora, MO) is strongly conservative.
Lawrence County, MO is very conservative. In Lawrence County, MO 17.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 80.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Lawrence county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 80.4% to 17.9%.
Lawrence county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 65605 (Aurora, MO) is strongly conservative.
Aurora, Missouri is strongly conservative.
Lawrence County, Missouri is very conservative.
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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.
Aurora, Missouri: 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 65605 (Aurora)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 55 contributions totaling $3,599 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $65 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 67 contributions totaling $13,316 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $199 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)