Haskell County, KS is a small rural county located in Southwest Kansas. It is home to approximately 3,000 residents who primarily work in agriculture and related industries. While the county is relatively small, it does have a few political issues that are applicable to its citizens. These range from local concerns such as road repairs and school funding to larger state-level issues such as taxation and immigration reform. Residents of Haskell County also have access to their own local political candidates who are running for office at the county level. These candidates typically focus on the issues that affect the citizens of the county directly, such as improving public safety and infrastructure or expanding job opportunities. With elections for local offices occurring regularly, voters in Haskell County have an opportunity to shape the future of their community by voting for the candidate they think will best represent them.
The political climate in Haskell County, KS is very conservative.
In Haskell County, KS 19.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 79.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Haskell county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 79.6% to 19.0%.
Haskell county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Haskell County, KS is very conservative.
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Kansas is somewhat 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.
Haskell, Kansas: 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 for the Democrat and I for the Independent. 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 Haskell County, KS
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2 contributions totaling $25 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $13 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 71 contributions totaling $23,685 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $334 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)