The city of Cape Girardeau, MO is located in the heart of America's Midwest. As an incorporated city, it is governed by a mayor and six council members, all of whom are voted into office by local citizens. The current mayor is Harry W. Rediger and the current council members are Joe Marsala, Mark Gardiner, Kent Peetz, Tony Riggs, John Voss, and Kyle Bursch. Each council member represents a different district within the city. The governing body is responsible for setting the budget and making decisions about how to best serve its citizens. As with any political process, there are often disagreements among officials over how certain issues should be handled or what policies should be implemented. However, through open discussion and dialogue between all stakeholders involved, the best possible solutions can be reached for the benefit of every resident in 63701 Cape Girardeau.
The political climate in Zip 63701 (Cape Girardeau, MO) is strongly conservative.
Cape Girardeau County, MO is very conservative. In Cape Girardeau County, MO 26.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 71.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Cape Girardeau county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 71.5% to 26.6%.
Cape Girardeau county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 63701 (Cape Girardeau, MO) is strongly conservative.
Cape Girardeau, Missouri is strongly conservative.
Cape Girardeau County, Missouri is very conservative.
Cape Girardeau 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.
Cape Girardeau, 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 63701 (Cape Girardeau)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,435 contributions totaling $140,078 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $98 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 518 contributions totaling $303,794 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $586 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)