The small city of La Crosse, KS (zip code 67548) is located in Rush County and is home to a population of approximately 935 residents. The political leadership of the local area consists of a Mayor and four City Council Members who serve four-year terms. All members are elected by the citizens at large during an election cycle that occurs every two years. The current Mayor is Blake Smith, who has held office since 2017. The City Council Members include Mary Thompson, Max White, John Green, and Steven Peters. The political climate in La Crosse is generally friendly and collaborative with each member working together to ensure the best interests of the city are upheld. Issues addressed by council members range from budgeting, zoning, infrastructure improvements, and public safety. Residents have confidence in their elected officials and look forward to ongoing progress for years to come.
The political climate in Zip 67548 (La Crosse, KS) is very conservative.
Rush County, KS is very conservative. In Rush County, KS 17.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 80.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Rush county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 80.5% to 17.6%.
Rush county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 67548 (La Crosse, KS) is very conservative.
La Crosse, Kansas is very conservative.
Rush County, Kansas is very conservative.
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Kansas 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.
La Crosse, Kansas: 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 67548 (La Crosse)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 48 contributions totaling $3,222 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $67 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 10 contributions totaling $5,225 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $523 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)