Cawker, KS is a small city of about 600 people in north-central Kansas. It is governed by a mayor and five council members who are elected to two year terms. The city council meets every month to discuss local matters, such as budgeting, zoning, and infrastructure maintenance. The current mayor is Mark Howard, who was first elected in 2018 and has been re-elected in the 2020 election. Cawker also has its own police force, which works hard to enforce laws and keep citizens safe. Over the years, Cawker has had a few political issues come up within the community that have been addressed by the mayor and council members. Most recently there was a debate over increasing taxes for public services such as road repair and trash removal. After several public hearings, it was decided that taxes should remain at their current level while other sources of funding were explored to pay for these services. Overall, politics in Cawker remains civil and focused on making life better for all its citizens.
The political climate in Cawker, KS is strongly conservative.
Mitchell County, KS is very conservative. In Mitchell County, KS 18.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 80.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Mitchell county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 80.7% to 18.0%.
Mitchell county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Cawker, KS is strongly conservative.
Mitchell 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.
Cawker, 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 Cawker, KS
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 0 contributions totaling $0 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $0 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 0 contributions totaling $0 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $0 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)