Falls Township (Sumner County), KS is a small, rural community that is largely agricultural in nature. The local politics are run by the Sumner County Board of Commissioners, which consists of five elected officials responsible for overseeing the county's government operations. The board includes three commissioners from Falls Township, who are elected to serve a four-year term. These commissioners work together with the other two commissioners from the county to set policy and make decisions that affect the entire county. Local political candidates often come from within Falls Township, as well as those running at-large from outside of town but within Sumner County, ensuring that all voices are heard when it comes to deciding how best to move forward with issues affecting the community and its residents.
The political climate in Falls township (Sumner County), KS is very conservative.
Sumner County, KS is very conservative. In Sumner County, KS 23.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 74.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Sumner county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 74.2% to 23.7%.
Sumner county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Falls township (Sumner County), KS is very conservative.
Sumner County, Kansas is very conservative.
Wichita Metro Area is moderately 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.
Falls township (Sumner 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 Falls township (Sumner County), KS
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 109 contributions totaling $5,718 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $52 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 169 contributions totaling $34,641 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $205 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)