Garfield township is located in Custer County, Nebraska and is home to a population of around 1,600 people. The local politics in Garfield Township are guided by the Custer County Board of Supervisors made up of five elected members. Every two years the residents of the township vote for a county supervisor from their area. The supervisors serve as a legislative body for the county, responsible for setting budgets, tax levies and fees, executing ordinances and carrying out other duties that ensure the proper functioning of government operations within Garfield Township. Additionally, each year the residents elect representatives to the Nebraska State Legislature who work on behalf of their constituents to pass laws that will benefit Garfield Township and Custer County. Through careful management by officials elected by its citizens, Garfield Township has been able to thrive as a small community with an excellent quality of life.
The political climate in Garfield township (Custer County), NE is very conservative.
Custer County, NE is very conservative. In Custer County, NE 13.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 84.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Custer county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 84.7% to 13.1%.
Custer county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Garfield township (Custer County), NE is very conservative.
Custer 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.
Garfield township (Custer County), 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 Garfield township (Custer County), NE
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 57 contributions totaling $5,833 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $102 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 77 contributions totaling $18,816 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $244 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)