Pleasant Valley is a small township located in Pawnee County, Kansas. Its politics are largely driven by the local citizens and their values. The main political parties active in Pleasant Valley are the Republicans and the Democrats, though there are also independent candidates who run each election cycle. The current mayor of Pleasant Valley is a Republican, but Pawnee County does not have an official party affiliation for its elected officials. Local elections in the township typically draw a strong turnout from residents eager to have their voices heard and contribute to shaping their community. Issues that regularly come up during political campaigns include education, infrastructure improvements, public safety, and economic development. The people of Pleasant Valley take an active role in their community’s future by engaging in the democratic process every election season.
The political climate in Pleasant Valley township (Pawnee County), KS is strongly conservative.
Pawnee County, KS is very conservative. In Pawnee County, KS 23.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 74.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Pawnee county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 74.7% to 23.5%.
Pawnee county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Pleasant Valley township (Pawnee County), KS is strongly conservative.
Pawnee 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 Valley township (Pawnee 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 Valley township (Pawnee County), KS
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 41 contributions totaling $3,970 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $97 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 24 contributions totaling $6,803 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $283 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)