Politics & Voting in Potter County, South Dakota

The Political Climate in Potter County, SD is Strongly conservative.

In Potter County, SD 16.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 80.1% voted Republican, and the remaining 3.8% voted Independent.

Potter county voted Republican in the last five Presidential elections.
In the last Presidential election, Potter county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 80.1% to 16.1%

The BestPlaces Liberal/Conservative Index

Potter County, SD is Strongly conservative

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South Dakota is Very conservative.

VoteWord™

Displaying 16 years of Presidential voting, visualized in one word.

Potter, South Dakota: 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 candidate won, D for the Democrat and I for the Independent. The five elections (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016) would be expressed as five-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 five elections the state has been closely contested, voting narrowly for the Republican candidate in 2016 after voting Democratic in 2008 and 2012. Virginia (r r d d d) has voted narrowly Democratic in the last three elections.

Individual Campaign Contributions in Potter County, SD

In the last 4 years (2015-2018), there were 45 contributions totaling $629 to Democratic and liberal campaigns, averaging $14 per contribution.

In the last 4 years, there were 46 contributions totaling $28,594 to Republican and conservative campaigns, averaging $622 per contribution.

(source: Federal Election Commission)