The Yakama Nation Reservation in Washington State is home to the federally recognized Yakama Nation, a Native American tribe with a strong cultural and political identity. The Yakama Nation Reservation spans over 1.3 million acres of land and is made up of fourteen different communities. Like many tribal nations, the Yakama Nation operates its own governmental system with a Council and elected officials who represent the interests of its members. The Yakama Nation's Council works to ensure that their people have access to services such as health care, education, housing, economic development, and more. Additionally, they work to maintain long standing treaties between themselves and the United States government. They also strive to preserve their culture by continually advocating for Native American rights in political decisions on local, state and federal levels. The love and commitment that the Yakama Nation has for their people is evident throughout their reservation as well as in politics all across Washington State.
The political climate in Yakama Nation Reservation, WA is somewhat conservative.
Klickitat County, WA is somewhat conservative. In Klickitat County, WA 43.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 53.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Klickitat county remained moderately Republican, 53.4% to 43.9%.
Klickitat county voted Republican in five of the last six Presidential elections (2008 went Democratic).
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Yakama Nation Reservation, WA is somewhat conservative.
Klickitat County, Washington is somewhat conservative.
Washington is moderately liberal.
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.
Yakama Nation Reservation, Washington: 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 Yakama Nation Reservation, WA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 0 contributions totaling $0 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $0 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 7 contributions totaling $960 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $137 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)