Pleasant Grove Township is a small, rural township in Greenwood County, KS. The township is largely agricultural and the population is sparse. Political representation for Pleasant Grove Township is provided by elected officials from both the county and state levels. At the county level, Pleasant Grove Township is represented by a commissioner who serves on the Greenwood County Commission. State representation includes representatives in the Kansas House of Representatives and Senate. Local elections take place every two years to determine who will serve as Pleasant Grove Township's representatives to both the county and state levels of government. Candidates running for office typically prioritize issues such as economic development, infrastructure improvements, education reform, environmental protection, and public safety when campaigning in Pleasant Grove Township.
The political climate in Pleasant Grove township (Greenwood County), KS is strongly conservative.
Greenwood County, KS is very conservative. In Greenwood County, KS 18.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 79.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Greenwood county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 79.4% to 18.5%.
Greenwood county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Pleasant Grove township (Greenwood County), KS is strongly conservative.
Greenwood 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.
Pleasant Grove township (Greenwood 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 Pleasant Grove township (Greenwood County), KS
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 65 contributions totaling $1,580 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $24 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 53 contributions totaling $8,321 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $157 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)