Spring Creek Township, located in Coffey County, Kansas is a small rural community with a population of around 2,000 people. The township is represented by elected officials from the three branches of government; local, state and federal. At the local level, there is an elected town council that oversees the day-to-day operations of the township including setting budgets and policies. At the state level, residents are represented by their state district representative and senator in Topeka who help bring about necessary changes for Spring Creek Township. For federal politics, Spring Creek Township elects representatives to Congress who represent their interests on a larger scale. All of these elected officials work together to ensure Spring Creek Township has a stable government that works for its people.
The political climate in Spring Creek township (Coffey County), KS is very conservative.
Coffey County, KS is very conservative. In Coffey County, KS 21.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 76.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Coffey county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 76.4% to 21.1%.
Coffey county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Spring Creek township (Coffey County), KS is very conservative.
Coffey 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.
Spring Creek township (Coffey 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 Spring Creek township (Coffey County), KS
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 18 contributions totaling $3,825 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $213 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 14 contributions totaling $1,775 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $127 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)