Friend, NE is a small town with a population of approximately 1,200 people. The local politics are managed by an elected mayor and four council members. Each person in the town has the right to vote in state and federal elections, as well as for local candidates in the municipal elections. The most recent mayoral election was won by current Mayor Mike Jones who ran on a platform of maintaining public safety and protecting the local environment. He also promised to support small businesses throughout the area. The recent council election saw three incumbents winning re-election while one challenger was selected to join the team. These five individuals will be responsible for making decisions that affect all of Friend, NE during their term of office.
The political climate in Friend, NE is moderately conservative.
Saline County, NE is strongly conservative. In Saline County, NE 34.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 62.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Saline county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 62.8% to 34.4%.
Saline county voted Republican in five of the last six Presidential elections (2008 went Democratic).
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Friend, NE is moderately conservative.
Saline County, Nebraska is strongly conservative.
Nebraska is moderately 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.
Friend, Nebraska: r R d 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 Friend, NE
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 0 contributions totaling $0 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $0 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 39 contributions totaling $3,422 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $88 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)