Fort Smith, MT is a small town with a population of just under 500 people. Despite its size, the town has an active political scene. Local elections are held every two years to elect representatives for the town that will advocate for the needs of the community and ensure that policy decisions reflect the values of its residents. Most recently, residents elected Joe Johnson to serve as mayor and three council members: Christina Smith, Mike Brown, and Rachel White. These local officials offer a variety of perspectives to address the matters before them in Fort Smith. With each person committed to making Fort Smith a great place to live, work and play, progress is being made across the board. The future looks bright for this small Montana town!
The political climate in Zip 59035 (Fort Smith, MT) is leaning liberal.
Big Horn County, MT is leaning liberal. In Big Horn County, MT 52.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 46.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Big Horn county remained moderately Democratic, 52.0% to 46.1%.
Big Horn county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 59035 (Fort Smith, MT) is leaning liberal.
Fort Smith, Montana is leaning liberal.
Big Horn County, Montana is leaning liberal.
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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.
Fort Smith, Montana: D d D D d 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 59035 (Fort Smith)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 21 contributions totaling $509 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $24 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 2 contributions totaling $200 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $100 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)