The small town of Bristow, NE is a tight-knit community with a population of approximately 700 people. It has a Mayor and City Council who work together to provide essential services and make decisions that affect the quality of life in the town. The Mayor and City Council members are elected by the citizens of Bristow every four years, with elections taking place in November. There are generally two or three candidates for each position, and the current Mayor is Hayley Watson who was elected in 2020. The City Council works hard to ensure that residents have access to the resources they need, such as safe roads, parks and recreational facilities, police protection, public transit, water supply and sewer services. They also take an active role in addressing issues that arise within the town such as crime prevention and economic development. As a whole, politics in Bristow center around making sure all citizens are taken care of with respect and that their opinions are heard when it comes time to making important decisions about local issues.
The political climate in Bristow, NE is strongly conservative.
Boyd County, NE is very conservative. In Boyd County, NE 11.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 87.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 0.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Boyd county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 87.4% to 11.7%.
Boyd county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Bristow, NE is strongly conservative.
Boyd County, Nebraska is very conservative.
Nebraska is moderately 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.
Bristow, Nebraska: 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 Bristow, NE
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 0 contributions totaling $0 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $0 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1 contributions totaling $250 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $250 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)