Politics & Voting in Ottawa Metro Area, Kansas

The Political Climate in Ottawa Metro Area is Somewhat conservative.

In Ottawa Metro Area 26.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 65.5% voted Republican, and the remaining 8.1% voted Independent.

The Ottawa metro area voted Republican in the last five Presidential elections.
In the last Presidential election, the Ottawa metro area remained overwhelmingly Republican, 65.5% to 26.4%

The BestPlaces Liberal/Conservative Index

Ottawa Metro Area is Somewhat conservative

Kansas is Strongly conservative.

VoteWord™

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

Ottawa, Kansas: 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 Ottawa Metro Area

In the last 4 years (2015-2018), there were 1,120 contributions totaling $29,049 to Democratic and liberal campaigns, averaging $26 per contribution.

In the last 4 years, there were 220 contributions totaling $102,405 to Republican and conservative campaigns, averaging $465 per contribution.

(source: Federal Election Commission)