Fairview Township is located in Russell County, Kansas and is actively involved in local politics. The county is governed by a board of commissioners, who are elected to serve four-year terms. The current members of the board are President Larry Edwards, Vice President Joe Williams, and Commissioner Ryan Calkins. Fairview Township also has its own governing body, the Town Board of Trustees. This board is responsible for day-to-day operations within the township. They are elected to two-year terms and oversee the budgeting process as well as local laws and regulations. In addition to these positions, Fairview Township also elects representatives to both the state legislature and congress. These representatives are tasked with representing the interests and concerns of their constituents while advocating for policies that benefit their community.
The political climate in Fairview township (Russell County), KS is strongly conservative.
Russell County, KS is very conservative. In Russell County, KS 17.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 80.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Russell county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 80.5% to 17.3%.
Russell county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Fairview township (Russell County), KS is strongly conservative.
Russell 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.
Fairview township (Russell 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 Fairview township (Russell County), KS
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 142 contributions totaling $3,632 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $26 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 22 contributions totaling $7,360 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $335 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)