Manchester, KS is a small city located in the eastern part of Kansas with a total area of 1.9 square miles. It has an estimated population of just over 1,500 people and is administered by an elected mayor-council form of government. In terms of local politics, the citizens of Manchester have the opportunity to vote for candidates during municipal elections that occur every two years. The current mayor is Tony Frizzell, who was elected in 2020 and is running for re-election in 2022. Other members on the city council include Janis Smith, Spencer Appleby, and Valerie Douglas. All three are running for re-election in 2022 as well. Generally, Manchester residents are engaged and take great pride in their community’s politics as they strive to keep it a safe place to live while focusing on economic development initiatives like creating housing options for single-parent families and developing infrastructure improvements for town beautification projects.
The political climate in Manchester, KS is very conservative.
Dickinson County, KS is very conservative. In Dickinson County, KS 22.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 76.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Dickinson county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 76.2% to 22.0%.
Dickinson county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Manchester, KS is very conservative.
Dickinson 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.
Manchester, 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 Manchester, KS
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 151 contributions totaling $7,808 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $52 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 115 contributions totaling $18,260 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $159 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)