The small, rural town of Clyde, Kansas is home to around 500 people. With a population this small, the politics in Clyde are quite different than larger cities and towns. The local government is made up of a Mayor and a City Council, all elected by their fellow citizens for four-year terms. Every few years the citizens of Clyde come together to discuss policy and vote on who will lead their town for the next term. The candidates for office are always locals with deep roots in the community, so each election cycle provides a chance for residents to have their voices heard and make decisions that will shape their lives in the coming years. As such, elections are a very important part of life in Clyde and serve to keep both local officials and residents accountable to one another.
The political climate in Clyde, KS is strongly conservative.
Cloud County, KS is very conservative. In Cloud County, KS 21.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 76.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Cloud county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 76.0% to 21.6%.
Cloud county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Clyde, KS is strongly conservative.
Cloud 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.
Clyde, 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 Clyde, KS
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 21 contributions totaling $21,158 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $1,008 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 16 contributions totaling $635 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $40 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)