Belvue Township, KS is a small rural community located in east central Kansas. The local government is run by a five-member Board of Supervisors who are elected to two-year terms. Those supervisors oversee the day-to-day operations of local organizations including fire protection and police services, as well as the building and zoning department. They also manage the budget for the township. Every year, residents can vote for their choice of board members who will represent them on the board. Residents also have the opportunity to attend town hall meetings and voice their opinions on various issues that affect the township. This helps ensure that Belvue Township maintains a strong sense of community involvement in its politics and decision making processes.
The political climate in Belvue township, KS is very conservative.
Pottawatomie County, KS is very conservative. In Pottawatomie County, KS 25.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 72.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Pottawatomie county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 72.2% to 25.3%.
Pottawatomie county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Belvue township, KS is very conservative.
Pottawatomie County, Kansas is very conservative.
Manhattan Metro Area is leaning 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.
Belvue township, 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 Belvue township, KS
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 309 contributions totaling $24,715 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $80 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 172 contributions totaling $161,761 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $940 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)