Riverside Township, located in Trego County, Kansas is an active political area. Every election season, local candidates come out to campaign and share their platforms with the electorate. The issues vary from road safety to school funding, but all are met with enthusiasm from the electorate as they make their decision on who will best represent them and their communities within Riverside Township. With no representatives on the state or federal level, citizens of Riverside Township rely heavily on local leadership to do what's best for them and their families. There is a strong sense of civic duty among residents of Riverside Township and every election year they turn out in large numbers to both cast their vote and encourage others to do the same.
The political climate in Riverside township (Trego County), KS is strongly conservative.
Trego County, KS is very conservative. In Trego County, KS 14.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 83.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Trego county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 83.6% to 14.8%.
Trego county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Riverside township (Trego County), KS is strongly conservative.
Trego 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.
Riverside township (Trego 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 Riverside township (Trego County), KS
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 11 contributions totaling $423 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $38 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 141 contributions totaling $13,500 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $96 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)