Fairview, SD is a small town with a population of about 3,000 people. It is a rural farming community and is served by a five-member City Council. The Mayor of Fairview is Mark Johnson, who was first elected in 2018. The City Council meets on the first Tuesday of every month to discuss legislation and pass ordinances that improve the quality of life in the town. Local political candidates are often seen campaigning door-to-door throughout the city during election season. The citizens of Fairview take an active role in local politics, with many attending City Council meetings to voice their opinions on current issues. With its strong sense of community and involvement from its citizens, Fairview provides an excellent example of successful small-town politics.
The political climate in Fairview, SD is strongly conservative.
Lincoln County, SD is moderately conservative. In Lincoln County, SD 37.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 60.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Lincoln county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 60.6% to 37.0%.
Lincoln county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Fairview, SD is strongly conservative.
Lincoln County, South Dakota is moderately conservative.
Sioux Falls Metro Area is somewhat 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.
Fairview, 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 Fairview, SD
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 44 contributions totaling $2,107 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $48 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 24 contributions totaling $2,360 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $98 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)