Hutchinson County is located in the state of South Dakota and is home to a population of over 5,000 people. It has a long history of strong civic engagement and political activism that continues today. The local government operates under the guidance of an elected board of commissioners who are responsible for making important decisions regarding the county's infrastructure, economic development, and other issues facing its citizens. Additionally, many issues are brought before the community for discussion at regularly scheduled town meetings and in public forums hosted by various groups representing different interests throughout the area. Local elections bring out many passionate candidates who care about their community and seek to make it better through their service. Every election season brings opportunities for residents to impact their future by voting on candidates who they feel will best represent their own interests and values. With so much energy focused on politics within this county, Hutchinson remains an important location in South Dakota for political discourse.
The political climate in Hutchinson County, SD is very conservative.
In Hutchinson County, SD 20.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 78.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Hutchinson county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 78.2% to 20.2%.
Hutchinson county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Hutchinson County, SD is very conservative.
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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.
Hutchinson, 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 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 Hutchinson County, SD
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 31 contributions totaling $2,393 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $77 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 109 contributions totaling $32,595 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $299 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)