Garrison, Nebraska is a small town located in the northeastern part of the state. It is home to a tight-knit community that values tradition and honoring their local history. The town also has its own political climate, with residents engaging in local government and elections to determine who will represent them at the city level. Every election cycle brings out residents to vote on local issues and candidates for mayor, city council, and other public offices in Garrison. The campaigns are typically low key affairs, as most of the candidates come from within the community and are familiar faces to those living there. This helps shape an environment where neighbors look out for each other and strive to make decisions that benefit everyone in Garrison.
The political climate in Garrison, NE is very conservative.
Butler County, NE is very conservative. In Butler County, NE 19.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 78.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Butler county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 78.4% to 19.3%.
Butler county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Garrison, NE is very conservative.
Butler County, Nebraska is very 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.
Garrison, Nebraska: 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 Garrison, NE
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 3 contributions totaling $0 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $0 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 23 contributions totaling $1,641 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $71 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)