Liberty Township in Dickinson County, Kansas is a rural community with a population of approximately 2,000 people. The township is governed by the Liberty Township Trustees who are elected to their positions and serve four-year terms. The current trustees for Liberty Township are Jeff Wilbur, Shane Kadela, and Doug Cockman. Their duties include providing law enforcement services, maintaining public roads and bridges, maintaining cemeteries, managing township finances and providing other necessary services that ensure the safety of all citizens. The trustees also represent Liberty Township at county meetings and functions as needed. Although there are no local political candidates running currently, residents of Liberty Township can still vote in various local and national elections to help shape policy decisions that affect their lives and the future of their community.
The political climate in Liberty township (Dickinson County), KS is very conservative.
Dickinson County, KS is very conservative. In Dickinson County, KS 22.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 76.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Dickinson county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 76.2% to 22.0%.
Dickinson county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Liberty township (Dickinson County), KS is very conservative.
Dickinson 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.
Liberty township (Dickinson 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 Liberty township (Dickinson County), KS
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 382 contributions totaling $25,223 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $66 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 219 contributions totaling $36,865 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $168 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)