Liberty Township in Kearney County, Nebraska is a small and rural community with a population of around 1,400 people. It has the unique distinction of being home to two different county seats: Minden and Gibbon. The township is governed by a Board of Supervisors, which are elected every four years in nonpartisan elections by the residents of Liberty Township. As such, there is no political campaigning for local candidates within Liberty Township. Although politics may have an influence on life at the county level, local politics usually do not affect day-to-day life in Liberty Township. Residents instead focus on issues within their own communities, such as public safety and infrastructure improvements. The Board of Supervisors makes sure that these issues are addressed by making sure that they are properly funded and implemented. This helps ensure that Liberty Township remains a safe place to live and work for its residents.
The political climate in Liberty township (Kearney County), NE is very conservative.
Kearney County, NE is very conservative. In Kearney County, NE 19.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 78.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Kearney county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 78.0% to 19.4%.
Kearney county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Liberty township (Kearney County), NE is very conservative.
Kearney County, Nebraska is very conservative.
Kearney Metro Area 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.
Liberty township (Kearney 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 Liberty township (Kearney County), NE
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 278 contributions totaling $16,138 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $58 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 65 contributions totaling $5,839 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $90 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)