Sparta, Missouri is a small city in southwestern Missouri. It is home to around 4,000 people and is the county seat of Christian County. The politics in Sparta are overseen by a mayor-council government with elected leaders representing the citizens of the city. The mayor is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the municipality, while the council works to ensure that policies and laws are managed correctly. Regular elections take place every few years, allowing citizens to vote on their local representatives and choose who will best represent them. In addition to handling legislative matters, the city also focuses on providing public services such as fire protection, garbage collection, water supply, and street maintenance. All this work helps ensure that Sparta remains a great place for residents to live and work.
The political climate in Sparta, MO is strongly conservative.
Christian County, MO is very conservative. In Christian County, MO 23.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 74.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Christian county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 74.4% to 23.7%.
Christian county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Sparta, MO is strongly conservative.
Christian County, Missouri is very conservative.
Springfield Metro Area 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.
Sparta, 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 Sparta, MO
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 33 contributions totaling $1,462 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $44 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 36 contributions totaling $5,049 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $140 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)