Gove City, KS is a small town located in the Midwest United States that has a population of approximately 4,500 people. The city is governed by a mayor-council system, which includes six council members and one mayor. The current mayor is David Williams, who was elected to serve four more years in 2021 after winning the mayoral race. The city’s council meetings are open to the public and provide citizens with an opportunity to learn about their local government and discuss important topics with elected officials. Additionally, Gove City holds municipal elections every two years where residents can cast their votes for local political candidates such as school board members and other local offices. Through these elections, Gove City residents are able to choose leaders who can help shape the future of their hometown.
The political climate in Gove City, KS is strongly conservative.
Gove County, KS is very conservative. In Gove County, KS 11.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 87.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Gove county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 87.8% to 11.3%.
Gove county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Gove City, KS is strongly conservative.
Gove 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.
Gove City, 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 Gove City, KS
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 4 contributions totaling $60 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $15 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 30 contributions totaling $3,707 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $124 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)