Belmont Township in Phillips County, Kansas is a rural community with a population of approximately 500 people. The township is governed by the Phillips County Board of Commissioners, consisting of three county commissioners who are elected every four years to serve staggered terms. The board members serve as the governing body for all unincorporated areas of the county and work to ensure that local laws and ordinances are enforced. They oversee public improvements, taxation policies, public health regulations, and establish budgets for the county’s operations. Additionally, each year they appoint representatives from Belmont Township to various committees tasked with addressing local issues. This helps to ensure that local needs are met and that Belmont residents have an opportunity to be actively involved in their community’s future.
The political climate in Belmont township (Phillips County), KS is strongly conservative.
Phillips County, KS is very conservative. In Phillips County, KS 11.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 86.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Phillips county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 86.9% to 11.4%.
Phillips county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Belmont township (Phillips County), KS is strongly conservative.
Phillips 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.
Belmont township (Phillips County), 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 Belmont township (Phillips County), KS
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 90 contributions totaling $1,806 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $20 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 58 contributions totaling $8,614 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $149 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)