Long Hollow, SD is a small town located in the south of the state. It has a close-knit community with many families living there for generations. Despite its small size, Long Hollow has an active local political scene. Local politics are centered around issues such as maintaining the town's infrastructure, ensuring that taxes are fair and sensible, and keeping the area safe and secure. There are several local political candidates who run for mayor or city council every election cycle, but often these elections do not receive much attention from outside of the town's borders. Nevertheless, citizens of Long Hollow take their civic duty seriously and regularly come out to vote in local elections to ensure that their voices are heard and their views taken into account when it comes to deciding how best to manage their beloved hometown.
The political climate in Long Hollow, SD is moderately conservative.
Roberts County, SD is somewhat conservative. In Roberts County, SD 42.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 55.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Roberts county remained strongly Republican, 55.8% to 42.4%.
Roberts county voted Republican again in 2020, after voting Democratic in 2012, 2008, and 2004.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Long Hollow, SD is moderately conservative.
Roberts County, South Dakota 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.
Long Hollow, South Dakota: R d D d 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 Long Hollow, SD
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 104 contributions totaling $12,064 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $116 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 35 contributions totaling $7,371 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $211 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)