Raytown, MO 64133 is a small city situated in Jackson County, and is part of the Kansas City Metropolitan area. The city government consists of an elected mayor and eight council members who serve alternating terms of two or four years. The Mayor serves a four-year term, and acts as the chief executive officer responsible for overseeing the daily operations of the city. In addition to leading city council meetings, the mayor is directly responsible for signing all official documents.
The political environment in Raytown is predominantly Democratic; however, this hasn't always been the case. Recent elections have seen some upsets with independent candidates winning city council seats against Democrat opponents. This has led to more contentious debates both at council meetings and in local debates between political candidates vying for votes. Generally speaking though, Raytown remains a relatively progressive community that values citizen participation in its politics.
The political climate in Zip 64133 (Raytown, MO) is somewhat liberal.
Jackson County, MO is moderately liberal. In Jackson County, MO 59.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 37.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Jackson county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 59.8% to 37.9%.
Jackson county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 64133 (Raytown, MO) is somewhat liberal.
Raytown, Missouri is somewhat liberal.
Jackson County, Missouri is moderately liberal.
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.
Raytown, Missouri: D D D D D D
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 64133 (Raytown)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 942 contributions totaling $66,202 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $70 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 108 contributions totaling $12,027 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $111 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)