Butler County is located in the state of Missouri and is part of a larger region known as the Ozarks region. It is an area with a strong sense of community that is governed by local elected officials. Butler County has a board of commissioners, sheriffs, court clerks, and representatives on various committees that work together to ensure the county's best interests are met. Local politicians are focused on providing essential services to the people of Butler County while maintaining fiscal responsibility and ensuring the economic stability of the region. Various initiatives, such as developing educational opportunities for local students, improving public transportation, encouraging job growth through tax incentives and grants, and protecting natural resources have been recently implemented by local politicians in Butler County. Community members remain actively involved in decisions made at the county level to continue to provide a safe community environment for their families.
The political climate in Butler County, MO is very conservative.
In Butler County, MO 18.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 80.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Butler county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 80.4% to 18.2%.
Butler county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Butler County, MO is very conservative.
Poplar Bluff Metro Area is very conservative.
Missouri 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.
Butler, Missouri: 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 Butler County, MO
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 390 contributions totaling $24,668 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $63 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 318 contributions totaling $93,647 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $294 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)