Center Township in Atchison County, KS is a rural area and primarily a farming community. It is home to many small towns such as Bendena, Effingham, and Lancaster. Politics in the township are handled by the Atchison County Board of Commissioners who make decisions on policy issues that affect the residents of Center Township. The county board also oversees local elections for township positions such as mayor and selectman. Local candidates are running for township positions and campaigning with outreach events throughout the county to gain support for their candidacy. Residents of Center Township can expect to see political campaigns from local candidates and enjoy having a voice in their own community's politics.
The political climate in Center township (Atchison County), KS is very conservative.
Atchison County, KS is very conservative. In Atchison County, KS 31.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 65.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Atchison county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 65.9% to 31.7%.
Atchison county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Center township (Atchison County), KS is very conservative.
Atchison County, Kansas is very conservative.
Atchison Metro Area 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.
Center township (Atchison 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 Center township (Atchison County), KS
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 130 contributions totaling $19,232 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $148 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 86 contributions totaling $68,778 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $800 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)