The small town of Lanagan, MO is located in McDonald County and home to a population of 648 people. Despite its small size, politics still play an important role in the town's everyday life. The local elections are always hotly contested with candidates from both major parties vying for the town’s support. People come out in droves to vote on issues that affect them directly such as school funding, public safety, infrastructure improvements and more. Currently, Lanagan is served by several local politicians including county supervisors, city council members, state representatives and US senators who all ensure that the needs of the townspeople are met. It's no surprise then why it's so important for locals to get involved in the political process and make their voices heard when it comes to important decisions affecting their community.
The political climate in Zip 64847 (Lanagan, MO) is strongly conservative.
McDonald County, MO is very conservative. In McDonald County, MO 15.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 82.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, McDonald county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 82.4% to 15.9%.
McDonald county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 64847 (Lanagan, MO) is strongly conservative.
Lanagan, Missouri is strongly conservative.
McDonald County, Missouri is very conservative.
Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers Metro Area is moderately 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.
Lanagan, 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 64847 (Lanagan)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 0 contributions totaling $0 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $0 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 0 contributions totaling $0 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $0 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)