The city of Butler, MO (zip code 64730) is part of Benton County, a largely rural area in southwest Missouri. Politically, the county has traditionally leaned Republican in presidential elections. In recent years, however, local politics have become more competitive with Democrats seeing some success at the local level. On the state level, Republicans have been successful in recent years but Democrats have made gains and are hoping to continue fighting for representation in Benton County. Locally, voters will soon be heading to the polls to cast their ballots for their preferred candidates as upcoming elections are sure to be hotly contested.
The political climate in Zip 64730 (Butler, MO) is strongly conservative.
Bates County, MO is very conservative. In Bates County, MO 19.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 78.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Bates county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 78.2% to 19.8%.
Bates county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 64730 (Butler, MO) is strongly conservative.
Butler, Missouri is strongly conservative.
Bates County, Missouri is very 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.
Butler, 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 64730 (Butler)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 68 contributions totaling $2,970 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $44 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 50 contributions totaling $12,191 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $244 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)