Politics in 64118 Kansas City, MO are strongly influenced by local city and state government. Kansas City is a part of Jackson County and the Mayor of Kansas City is Quinton Lucas. The City Council consists of twelve members elected from six districts across the city, while the Jackson County Executive is Frank White Jr. At the state level, the Missouri General Assembly has a House and Senate with 161 representatives and 33 senators respectively. The two US senators for Missouri are Roy Blunt and Josh Hawley, both Republicans. Local elections are held regularly to determine members of Congress, school board directors, county commissioners, mayors and other local officials who help shape policies that affect 64118 Kansas City, MO.
The political climate in Zip 64118 (Kansas City, MO) is leaning conservative.
Clay County, MO is leaning conservative. In Clay County, MO 46.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 51.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Clay county remained Republican, 51.0% to 46.9%.
Clay county voted Republican in the last five Presidential elections, after voting Democratic in 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 64118 (Kansas City, MO) is leaning conservative.
Kansas City, Missouri is leaning conservative.
Clay County, Missouri is leaning conservative.
Kansas City Metro Area is leaning 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.
Kansas City, Missouri: d 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 64118 (Kansas City)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,598 contributions totaling $78,983 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $49 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 540 contributions totaling $56,979 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $106 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)