The city of Weston, MO is a small town located in Platte County with a population of around 1,600 people. The city currently operates under a mayor-council system with the mayor and four council members representing the citizens of Weston. In recent years, local politics has been focused on improving infrastructure and facilities including resurfacing roads, improving drainage, and providing more recreational amenities for residents. The current mayor is Mark Davies, who was elected to office in 2016. He is supported by Councilman Scott Poynter, Steve Smith, Alan Wright and Matt Meersman who all serve two-year terms. Civic engagement is at an all time high as citizens come together to discuss issues that are important to the community such as public safety and economic development opportunities.
The political climate in Zip 64098 (Weston, MO) is somewhat 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 64098 (Weston, MO) is somewhat conservative.
Weston, Missouri is somewhat 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.
Weston, 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 64098 (Weston)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 119 contributions totaling $19,371 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $163 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 53 contributions totaling $3,581 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $68 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)