Brooklyn, SD is a small town located in the Midwest of the United States. It has a population of just over twenty-five hundred people and is known for its tight-knit community and strong sense of local pride. The politics in Brooklyn are very much based around local issues, with candidates vying for support amongst the town's citizens by focusing on their concerns. Local elections are conducted every four years and always feature a healthy mix of familiar faces and newcomers vying for political office. Candidates at these elections focus on bringing attention to important issues within the town such as public safety, economic development, education, healthcare, and environmental protection. Residents actively participate in town hall meetings to discuss these topics and have their voices heard on matters that affect their daily lives. With an emphasis placed on local representation, Brooklyn is a great example of how small towns can still maintain meaningful political discourse and involvement.
The political climate in Brooklyn, SD is strongly conservative.
Lincoln County, SD is moderately conservative. In Lincoln County, SD 37.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 60.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Lincoln county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 60.6% to 37.0%.
Lincoln county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Brooklyn, SD is strongly conservative.
Lincoln County, South Dakota is moderately conservative.
Sioux Falls Metro Area is somewhat conservative.
South Dakota is strongly 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.
Brooklyn, South 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 Brooklyn, SD
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 223 contributions totaling $30,836 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $138 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 106 contributions totaling $8,578 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $81 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)