Bowling Green Township, MO is a small rural town located in Pike County, Missouri. The town has a population of just over 1000 people and is represented on the local political level by the Bowling Green Town Council, which consists of five members who are elected to serve four year terms. Residents of Bowling Green Township have the opportunity to vote for their local representatives in local elections that take place every two years. The current mayor of Bowling Green Township is Larry Gresham, who was elected in 2020. The town council works hard to ensure that all residents of Bowling Green Township receive fair and equitable treatment from their local government, as well as making sure that their taxes are used wisely and responsibly to improve the overall quality of life for everyone in the township. The Town Council also works closely with other municipal governments throughout Pike County in order to identify and implement solutions to problems affecting all citizens throughout the county.
The political climate in Bowling Green township (Chariton County), MO is strongly conservative.
Chariton County, MO is very conservative. In Chariton County, MO 22.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 76.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Chariton county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 76.3% to 22.5%.
Chariton county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Bowling Green township (Chariton County), MO is strongly conservative.
Chariton County, Missouri is very conservative.
Missouri 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.
Bowling Green township (Chariton County), Missouri: 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 Bowling Green township (Chariton County), MO
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 118 contributions totaling $4,561 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $39 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 12 contributions totaling $2,193 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $183 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)