The Garden City, KS Metro Area is a bustling region with a vibrant political scene. Home to numerous local, state, and national political organizations, the area serves as a central hub for political activity and debate. Local elections are held every two years to select mayors, city council members, and other important municipal offices. The area also plays host to numerous special interest groups that advocate on behalf of their constituents in matters of policy both locally and nationally. Political participation in the Garden City Metro Area is high, with citizens engaged in discussing the major issues facing their community as well as the larger nation. From rallies to debates to town halls and more, residents have no shortage of ways to get involved in shaping their community’s future.
The political climate in Garden City Metro Area is strongly conservative.
In Garden City Metro Area 34.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 62.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, the Garden City metro area remained overwhelmingly Republican, 62.9% to 34.8%.
The Garden City metro area voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
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.
Garden City, 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 four elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in Garden City Metro Area
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 297 contributions totaling $33,297 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $112 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 572 contributions totaling $270,174 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $472 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)