The Political Climate in Turner, SD is Moderately conservative.
Turner County, SD is Moderately conservative. In Turner County, SD 23.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 70.8% voted Republican, and the remaining 6.1% voted Independent.
Turner county voted Republican in the last five Presidential elections.
In the last Presidential election, Turner county remained very strongly Republican, 70.8% to 23.2%
The BestPlaces Liberal/Conservative Index
Turner, SD is Moderately conservative
Turner County, South Dakota is Moderately conservative.
Sioux Falls Metro Area is Leaning conservative.
South 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 16 years of Presidential voting, visualized in one word.
Turner, South Dakota: 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 candidate won, D for the Democrat and I for the Independent. The five elections (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016) would be expressed as five-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 five elections the state has been closely contested, voting narrowly for the Republican candidate in 2016 after voting Democratic in 2008 and 2012. Virginia (r r d d d) has voted narrowly Democratic in the last three elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in Turner, SD
In the last 4 years (2015-2018), there were 147 contributions totaling $7,759 to Democratic and liberal campaigns, averaging $53 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 61 contributions totaling $5,598 to Republican and conservative campaigns, averaging $92 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)