The city of Wamego, KS is located in Pottawatomie County and has a population of approximately 3,480. Political candidates for the area are actively campaigning throughout the town to get their message out to the residents. The local politics in Wamego are mostly focused on issues that affect its citizens, such as education, economic development, healthcare, infrastructure, and other local services. The city council is responsible for setting policy and overseeing the implementation of those policies throughout the city. Wamego also features several active civic groups that focus on various social and environmental issues. With a relatively small population, political campaigns in Wamego tend to be quite personal and candidates often come from within the city itself. Residents of Wamego have a great opportunity to get involved in their local politics by attending town meetings or contacting their elected officials with concerns or suggestions about how to improve life in their community.
The political climate in Zip 66547 (Wamego, KS) is very conservative.
Pottawatomie County, KS is very conservative. In Pottawatomie County, KS 25.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 72.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Pottawatomie county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 72.2% to 25.3%.
Pottawatomie county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 66547 (Wamego, KS) is very conservative.
Wamego, Kansas is very conservative.
Pottawatomie County, Kansas is very conservative.
Manhattan Metro Area is leaning 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.
Wamego, 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 three elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in zip 66547 (Wamego)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 279 contributions totaling $19,715 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $71 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 81 contributions totaling $25,506 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $315 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)