Richland Township in Harvey County, Kansas is a rural area that is home to approximately 1,000 people. Politically, the township is a strongly conservative area and typically votes Republican in elections. As a result, the candidates who run for office tend to be members of the Republican Party. In recent years, local candidates have included Jim Smeal, a former state legislator who ran for county commissioner in 2019 and Josh Ewy, president of the Harvey County Republican Party who ran for State Representative in 2020. Both candidates sought to advance conservative values such as fiscal responsibility and smaller government regulation while promoting increased job growth and educational opportunities throughout the region.
The political climate in Richland township (Harvey County), KS is strongly conservative.
Harvey County, KS is moderately conservative. In Harvey County, KS 38.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 58.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Harvey county remained very strongly Republican, 58.5% to 38.8%.
Harvey county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Richland township (Harvey County), KS is strongly conservative.
Harvey County, Kansas is moderately 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 (Harvey 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 (Harvey County), KS
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 809 contributions totaling $57,611 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $71 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 312 contributions totaling $64,842 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $208 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)