Richland Township in Butler County, Kansas is governed by a three-member board of trustees that is elected by the citizens of the township. The board is responsible for overseeing the overall management and budgeting of the township. In addition to this, they also handle local service requests such as road maintenance and repairs, garbage collection, animal control, zoning issues and more. The board also works with various local organizations to promote economic development within the area. Richland Township has an active political base that has become increasingly involved in recent years due to its close proximity to Kansas City. There are several candidates running in local elections for positions on the Board of Trustees each year and residents use their voices to make their opinions heard during election season.
The political climate in Richland township (Butler County), KS is strongly conservative.
Butler County, KS is very conservative. In Butler County, KS 28.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 69.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Butler county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 69.6% to 28.2%.
Butler county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Richland township (Butler County), KS is strongly conservative.
Butler 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.
Richland township (Butler 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 Richland township (Butler County), KS
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 30 contributions totaling $5,927 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $198 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 187 contributions totaling $46,785 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $250 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)