The small city of Lucerne, MO is located in Missouri's Camden County and has a population of 64655. The local government follows the usual representative democracy structure with an elected mayor and city council. The current Mayor of Lucerne is John Kincaid who has been in office since 2015. His term will expire at the end of 2021. The City Council consists of seven members including four At-large Representatives, two Ward Representatives and a Youth Representative who is elected by their peers at Lucerne High School. All local political candidates must be registered to vote in Camden County and are subject to elections every two years according to Missouri state law. The City Council works together with the Mayor to make decisions regarding the city’s budget, zoning, infrastructure, public safety and more.
The political climate in Zip 64655 (Lucerne, MO) is very conservative.
Putnam County, MO is very conservative. In Putnam County, MO 15.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 84.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 0.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Putnam county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 84.0% to 15.3%.
Putnam county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 64655 (Lucerne, MO) is very conservative.
Lucerne, Missouri is very conservative.
Putnam County, Missouri is very conservative.
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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.
Lucerne, 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 64655 (Lucerne)
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)