Little Chute, WI is a small town that has a population of 11,475. As with many small towns, the politics in Little Chute revolves around local issues like education and taxation. Local elections are usually decided by small margins, as citizens take their votes seriously and make sure their voices are heard. There are typically two main political parties involved in local elections; Republican and Democrat. The current mayor of Little Chute is Mark Jansen, who was elected in 2018 under the Republican banner, beating out his Democratic challenger by just 12 votes. With such close races, it's clear that Little Chute residents care deeply about their local politics and take their civic duty seriously.
The political climate in Zip 54140 (Little Chute, WI) is somewhat conservative.
Outagamie County, WI is somewhat conservative. In Outagamie County, WI 44.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 54.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Outagamie county remained moderately Republican, 54.0% to 44.1%.
Outagamie county voted Republican in five of the last six Presidential elections (2008 went Democratic).
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 54140 (Little Chute, WI) is somewhat conservative.
Little Chute, Wisconsin is somewhat conservative.
Outagamie County, Wisconsin is somewhat conservative.
Appleton Metro Area is somewhat conservative.
Wisconsin is leaning liberal.
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.
Little Chute, Wisconsin: r r D 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 54140 (Little Chute)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 19 contributions totaling $1,330 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $70 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 33 contributions totaling $6,136 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $186 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)