Seneca, KS is a small town located in North East Kansas. Politically, the town is represented at the state level by Republican members of both the Kansas House of Representatives and Senate. At the local level, Seneca has an elected mayor and a five-member council who are responsible for creating laws and ordinances that govern the town. The mayor and council members serve four-year terms and work together to make decisions that benefit the citizens of Seneca. The current mayor is Bruce Babcock, and council members include Joseph Rose, Brett Jones, Casey Bowers, John Lewis, and Joe Hartman. All are committed to making Seneca a great place to live by bringing economic development opportunities to the community and promoting civic engagement through initiatives like volunteer projects and educational events.
The political climate in Seneca, KS is strongly conservative.
Nemaha County, KS is very conservative. In Nemaha County, KS 16.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 82.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Nemaha county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 82.1% to 16.3%.
Nemaha county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Seneca, KS is strongly conservative.
Nemaha 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.
Seneca, 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 Seneca, KS
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 59 contributions totaling $3,098 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $53 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 41 contributions totaling $10,535 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $257 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)