Kearny County, KS is an area with a small population spread throughout the county. It is a largely rural county and has many small towns and communities throughout it. While there are no local political candidates, citizens of Kearny County have an active role in state politics. The people of Kearny County actively engage in their communities by participating in local town meetings, as well as attending state-level political events. They take pride in their community and work to ensure that their voices are heard. Residents of the area take part in the democratic process by voting on issues regarding taxes, schools, and other services that affect them directly. The citizens also have access to congressional representatives to voice their opinions about the direction of state and national policy. All these factors contribute to make Kearny County an important participant in local and state politics.
The political climate in Kearny County, KS is very conservative.
In Kearny County, KS 18.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 80.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Kearny county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 80.0% to 18.4%.
Kearny county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Kearny County, KS is very conservative.
Garden City Metro Area is strongly conservative.
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.
Kearny, 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 Kearny County, KS
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1 contributions totaling $2,000 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $2,000 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 31 contributions totaling $8,393 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $271 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)