Union Township (McCook Cnty), SD is a small rural community with a population of about 1,200 people. Politically, the township tends to be conservative. The township is part of the South Dakota state house district 22 which has been held by Republican Representative Ray Ring since 2017. Union Township has traditionally voted in line with most other precincts in the county and state as it supports conservative candidates for all levels of office from local to state. In recent years, there has been an increase in support for more progressive candidates across the county, so it will be interesting to see how this affects voting patterns in Union Township in the future.
The political climate in Union township (McCook County), SD is very conservative.
McCook County, SD is very conservative. In McCook County, SD 26.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 71.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, McCook county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 71.3% to 26.5%.
McCook county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Union township (McCook County), SD is very conservative.
McCook County, South Dakota is very 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.
Union township (McCook County), 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 Union township (McCook County), SD
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 36 contributions totaling $57,402 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $1,595 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 29 contributions totaling $3,553 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $123 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)