The small town of Lone Rock, South Dakota is a relatively peaceful place where people enjoy the slower pace of life. Although the town is largely quiet, there are always political candidates vying to represent the community in local and state governments. Every election cycle, residents get to choose from several candidates that all have different ideas about how to best serve the citizens of Lone Rock. All of these contenders have unique backgrounds and values that they believe will help improve the quality of life in Lone Rock and throughout the great state of South Dakota. No matter who is elected, their primary goal is to make sure that everyone in Lone Rock has access to education, jobs, health care, and other important services.
The political climate in Lone Rock, SD is strongly conservative.
Moody County, SD is strongly conservative. In Moody County, SD 36.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 60.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Moody county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 60.9% to 36.8%.
Moody county voted Republican in five of the last six Presidential elections (2008 went Democratic).
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Lone Rock, SD is strongly conservative.
Moody County, South Dakota is strongly 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.
Lone Rock, South Dakota: r r d 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 Lone Rock, SD
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 180 contributions totaling $26,476 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $147 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 59 contributions totaling $22,895 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $388 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)