Shawnee, KS 66218 is located in Johnson County, which is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. The area is served by a range of local political representation, from the county and state level to national representation. At the county level, Shawnee is represented by members of the Johnson County Board of Commissioners and the Johnson County Sheriff's Office. In addition to county representation for Shawnee citizens, they are also represented in the state legislature by Representative Tom Cox and Senator Dinah Sykes. At the national level, Shawnee falls within Kansas's 3rd congressional district and is served by Representative Sharice Davids who was recently re-elected to office. Through these local political representatives, Shawnee has a strong voice in both local and state issues as well as national issues that affect their community.
The political climate in Zip 66218 (Shawnee, KS) is leaning conservative.
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 66218 (Shawnee, KS) is leaning conservative.
Shawnee, Kansas is leaning conservative.
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.
Shawnee, 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 66218 (Shawnee)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 369 contributions totaling $25,605 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $69 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 67 contributions totaling $77,162 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $1,152 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)