Green River, WY is a small town located in Southwest Wyoming and has a population of over 12,000 people. It is home to many political organizations, including the Sweetwater County Republican Party, the Sweetwater County Democrats and the Green River Tea Party. The town also elects local representatives to the Wyoming Legislature every two years, which is responsible for creating state laws. Currently, Green River has several active politicians representing the community at the local level such as Senator Gerald Geis, Representative Jonathan Barlow and Representative Mark Gordon. Various issues that are important to residents are actively discussed in meetings of these organizations and by our elected representatives in Cheyenne.
The political climate in Green River, WY is strongly conservative.
Sweetwater County, WY is very conservative. In Sweetwater County, WY 23.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 73.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 3.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Sweetwater county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 73.7% to 23.0%.
Sweetwater county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Green River, WY is strongly conservative.
Sweetwater County, Wyoming is very conservative.
Rock Springs Metro Area is very conservative.
Wyoming is very 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.
Green River, Wyoming: 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 if the Democratic Party candidate won and I if the Independent Party candidate won. 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 Green River, WY
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 792 contributions totaling $38,242 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $48 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 126 contributions totaling $19,502 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $155 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)