Loda, KS is located in the state of Kansas and has a small but active political landscape. The city is served by a mayor and council members who are elected to serve two-year terms. The current mayor is David Miller, who was elected in 2020 and has been serving the city since then. Along with the mayor, six council members make up the governing body of Loda. They are responsible for important decisions such as budgeting, public safety, infrastructure development, and enacting policies that are beneficial to their constituency. Furthermore, citizens of Loda have access to multiple different elected offices from local school boards to state representatives within Kansas’s government. All of these different levels of government work together to ensure that the people of Loda live in a safe and prosperous community.
The political climate in Loda, KS is strongly conservative.
Reno County, KS is very conservative. In Reno County, KS 31.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 65.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Reno county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 65.7% to 31.7%.
Reno county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Loda, KS is strongly conservative.
Reno County, Kansas is very conservative.
Hutchinson 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.
Loda, 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 Loda, KS
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 65 contributions totaling $5,349 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $82 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 63 contributions totaling $18,844 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $299 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)