Washington, MO is a small city located in Franklin County with a population of around 14,000 people. The city is governed by a mayor-council government system and the current mayor is Mark R Johnson. The city council consists of six members and they are elected to four year terms with two members being elected every two years. The Washington City Council meets on the first and third Mondays of each month, and all meetings are open to the public. Additionally, local elections are held every two years on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in April; during these elections residents can cast their votes for candidates running for office in Washington. With such a strong sense of community spirit and involvement from its citizens, it's no wonder that Washington is one of Missouri's most highly sought after cities to live in.
The political climate in Zip 63090 (Washington, MO) is strongly conservative.
Franklin County, MO is very conservative. In Franklin County, MO 27.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 70.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Franklin county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 70.8% to 27.1%.
Franklin county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 63090 (Washington, MO) is strongly conservative.
Washington, Missouri is strongly conservative.
Franklin County, Missouri is very conservative.
St. Louis 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.
Washington, 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 63090 (Washington)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 393 contributions totaling $31,741 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $81 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 190 contributions totaling $113,147 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $596 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)