Roeland Park, KS is a small town in Johnson County with a population of 6,063 people as of 2019. It is known for being an area with limited political involvement, but still holds important civic events and elections where local candidates are chosen. Recently, Roeland Park held their yearly municipal election in which three candidates ran for Mayor. The results of the election indicated that incumbent Mayor Mike Kelly was re-elected to a third term with the majority of votes. This is indicative of the citizens’ positive view towards the current leadership in Roeland Park and indicates that there is trust in the current mayor from the local citizens. Additionally, this indicates that there is an overall level of satisfaction with how things have been handled politically within the city.
The political climate in Zip 66205 (Roeland Park, KS) is leaning liberal.
Johnson County, KS is somewhat liberal. In Johnson County, KS 52.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 44.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Johnson county flipped moderately Democratic, 52.7% to 44.5%.
Johnson county flipped Democratic after voting Republican in the previous five Presidential elections.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 66205 (Roeland Park, KS) is leaning liberal.
Roeland Park, Kansas is leaning liberal.
Johnson County, Kansas is somewhat liberal.
Kansas City Metro Area is leaning liberal.
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.
Roeland Park, Kansas: R R r R r d
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 66205 (Roeland Park)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 3,165 contributions totaling $497,632 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $157 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 358 contributions totaling $145,329 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $406 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)