Twin Butte, North Dakota is a small town with a population of about 1,500 people. Despite its small size, Twin Butte has an active and engaged political community. Every year, local citizens come together to elect the town’s leaders and decide on important issues that affect the town. Currently, the mayor is Jim Johnson and his team of elected officials are responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of Twin Butte. The city council is comprised of eleven members who meet regularly to discuss local policies and make decisions in accordance with the wishes of their constituents. Additionally, Twin Butte holds regular public meetings in which citizens can both voice their opinions as well as learn what is going on in their city. All in all, politics plays a major role in this quaint town's development and progress.
The political climate in Twin Butte, ND is strongly conservative.
Divide County, ND is very conservative. In Divide County, ND 22.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 75.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Divide county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 75.2% to 22.0%.
Divide county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Twin Butte, ND is strongly conservative.
Divide County, North Dakota is very conservative.
North Dakota is very 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.
Twin Butte, North Dakota: 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 Twin Butte, ND
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 82 contributions totaling $4,132 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $50 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 51 contributions totaling $14,455 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $283 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)