Kansas City, MO is the 64153 zip code located in the center of Jackson County. It is a vibrant and active area with diverse political opinions. At the local level, citizens are engaged in many important issues such as improving public schools, ensuring economic growth, and creating more safe neighborhoods. Kansas City has three mayors who all have different platforms for their constituents. Mayor Sly James, Mayor Quinton Lucas, and Mayor Scott Taylor have all worked to bring innovative solutions to address the needs of their city. In addition to mayors, there are many current city council members who are working hard to represent the interests of their constituents while developing policy that will better Kansas City for years to come.
The political climate in Zip 64153 (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 64153 (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 64153 (Kansas City)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 215 contributions totaling $18,339 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $85 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 78 contributions totaling $16,957 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $217 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)