Belle Prairie, SD is a small town in the Midwest with a population of around 3,000 people. The town has a mayor-council form of government where the mayor is elected at large by all registered voters within the city limits. The council is composed of four members who are elected from individual districts. They serve two-year terms and are responsible for setting policy, establishing budgets, and passing ordinances. Additionally, Belle Prairie residents elect representatives to the Minnehaha County Council and the South Dakota State Senate. In recent years, election campaigns have been focused on issues such as economic development and public safety. With its friendly atmosphere and strong sense of community spirit, Belle Prairie has become an important political center in the region.
The political climate in Belle Prairie, SD is very conservative.
Beadle County, SD is very conservative. In Beadle County, SD 29.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 67.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Beadle county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 67.9% to 29.8%.
Beadle county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Belle Prairie, SD is very conservative.
Beadle County, South Dakota is very conservative.
Huron Metro Area is very conservative.
South Dakota is strongly 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.
Belle Prairie, South Dakota: 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 Belle Prairie, SD
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1 contributions totaling $200 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $200 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 18 contributions totaling $4,870 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $271 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)