Politics in Athens, KS is an important part of the city's culture. The City of Athens is governed by a mayor-council form of government. The mayor and council members are elected to serve for two-year terms. Athens also has representatives in both the Kansas House and Senate who are elected from the local district. The local residents have a voice in their political representation and regularly participate in meetings, debates, and other activities to ensure that their needs are being met. All of this helps to create an atmosphere of civic engagement that keeps politics at the forefront of the conversation within the community.
The political climate in Athens, KS is strongly conservative.
Jewell County, KS is very conservative. In Jewell County, KS 13.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 85.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Jewell county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 85.2% to 13.0%.
Jewell county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Athens, KS is strongly conservative.
Jewell County, Kansas is very conservative.
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.
Athens, 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 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 Athens, KS
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 7 contributions totaling $675 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $96 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 25 contributions totaling $3,812 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $152 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)