The small town of Custer, MT (59024) is located in eastern Montana near the South Dakota border and has a population of just over 200 people. Despite its size, politics are important to the local community and they take part in elections just like any other area. At the Federal level, citizens of Custer cast their votes for their representatives in Congress from Montana’s House Districts. On a more local level, citizens vote for Representatives and Senators in the Montana State Legislature as well as Judges for the state court system. In addition to these electoral processes, Custer is also home to several civic organizations that work on political issues that affect the town on both a local and statewide basis. With its long history of being an integral part of Montana's democracy, Custer plays an important role in shaping policy and enacting laws throughout this region of the state.
The political climate in Zip 59024 (Custer, MT) is strongly conservative.
Yellowstone County, MT is strongly conservative. In Yellowstone County, MT 36.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 60.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Yellowstone county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 60.6% to 36.6%.
Yellowstone county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 59024 (Custer, MT) is strongly conservative.
Custer, Montana is strongly conservative.
Yellowstone County, Montana is strongly conservative.
Billings Metro Area is strongly conservative.
Montana is moderately 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.
Custer, Montana: 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 59024 (Custer)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 0 contributions totaling $0 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $0 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 13 contributions totaling $12,940 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $995 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)