The small community of Bonne Terre, MO, located in St. Francois County, is a tightly knit area that values its local politics. The town elects a mayor and six aldermen who are each elected for two-year terms. These city officials work together to make decisions on behalf of the people of Bonne Terre. The current mayor is William Mueller and the current aldermen are Ryan Carper, Meredith Helm, Brian Hays, Roberta Henson, Anthony Watts, and Gary Woodcock.
Bonne Terre is also home to an active Civic Club which holds regular meetings to discuss local issues and plan events such as trash pickups and other volunteer projects throughout the year. The city works closely with these civic club members to ensure that everyone has a say in what goes on in their town. Additionally, the St. Francois County government serves the town by providing services such as law enforcement, road maintenance, animal control services, and more.
The political climate in Zip 63628 (Bonne Terre, MO) is very conservative.
St. Francois County, MO is very conservative. In St. Francois County, MO 25.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 73.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, St. Francois county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 73.1% to 25.1%.
St. Francois county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 63628 (Bonne Terre, MO) is very conservative.
Bonne Terre, Missouri is very conservative.
St. Francois County, Missouri is very conservative.
Farmington Metro Area is very conservative.
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.
Bonne Terre, 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 63628 (Bonne Terre)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 290 contributions totaling $13,008 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $45 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 128 contributions totaling $171,212 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $1,338 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)