Artas, SD is a small town located in the Heartland of the United States. It is a tight-knit community where everyone knows each other and local politics have a big influence. Artas is home to a Mayor as well as an elected City Council and Board of Education who are responsible for making decisions that affect the town on a daily basis. The city council holds public meetings throughout the year to discuss important topics such as building projects, zoning plans, and regulation changes. Each election cycle, local residents come out in droves to vote for their preferred candidates, having their voices heard in the political process. The people of Artas take great pride in having their opinions be represented by those they elect into office. This sense of civic engagement keeps Artas moving forward and leads to positive change within the community.
The political climate in Artas, SD is strongly conservative.
Campbell County, SD is very conservative. In Campbell County, SD 13.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 85.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Campbell county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 85.6% to 13.4%.
Campbell county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Artas, SD is strongly conservative.
Campbell County, South Dakota is very 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.
Artas, 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 Artas, SD
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 9 contributions totaling $935 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $104 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 82 contributions totaling $14,700 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $179 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)