The small city of 52169 Wadena, IA is located in Benton County and has a population of around 1,000 people. The citizens of Wadena are represented by local government officials at the county, state, and federal levels. At the county level, the residents are represented by a Board of Supervisors who serve four year terms. At the state level, two representatives from Senate District 37 and two representatives from House District 65 serve at the Iowa State Capitol. On the federal level, they are represented by Representatives Dave Loebsack and Cindy Axne in Congress. The citizens of Wadena take pride in their local politics and make sure to stay informed about political issues that may affect their community.
The political climate in Zip 52169 (Wadena, IA) is strongly conservative.
Fayette County, IA is moderately conservative. In Fayette County, IA 37.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 60.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Fayette county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 60.3% to 37.6%.
Fayette county voted Republican again in 2020, after voting Democratic in 2012, 2008, and 2004.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 52169 (Wadena, IA) is strongly conservative.
Wadena, Iowa is strongly conservative.
Fayette County, Iowa is moderately conservative.
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Iowa is leaning 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.
Wadena, Iowa: r d D D 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 52169 (Wadena)
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 18 contributions totaling $4,461 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $248 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)