Kansas City, MO is a vibrant and diverse city with many different political perspectives held by its citizens. The area is represented by Emanuel Cleaver II in the United States House of Representatives, with Roy Blunt representing it in the Senate. At the local level, there are several candidates vying for a seat on the City Council, such as Quinton Lucas and David Alvey. Both candidates have expressed their commitment to improving public safety, providing better housing options to residents, and creating job opportunities. Kansas City also has an initiative called \"My Brother's Keeper\" which focuses on providing resources to young men of color in order to help them succeed. This shows that the politics in this city are geared towards giving everyone a voice and helping all citizens reach their full potential.
The political climate in Zip 64152 (Kansas City, MO) is leaning conservative.
Platte County, MO is leaning conservative. In Platte County, MO 47.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 50.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Platte county remained Republican, 50.5% to 47.5%.
Platte county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 64152 (Kansas City, MO) is leaning conservative.
Kansas City, Missouri is leaning conservative.
Platte 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: 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 64152 (Kansas City)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,058 contributions totaling $331,554 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $161 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 414 contributions totaling $142,704 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $345 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)