The small town of 59349 Terry, MT is located in Wheatland County and has a population of less than 500 people. The local politics of the area are dominated by the Wheatland County board, which is made up of five elected representatives from each township in the county. The board sets policy for the entire county, including decisions related to taxes, spending, zoning, and infrastructure improvements. Each representative serves two-year terms and can be elected or re-elected to serve as many as twelve years. The current board chairman is Tom Johnson and the other members include Tim Smith, Scott Anderson, Nicole Rossman, and Christina Lenhart. These representatives are responsible for making sure that the needs of Terry's citizens are addressed on a local level.
The political climate in Zip 59349 (Terry, MT) is very conservative.
Prairie County, MT is very conservative. In Prairie County, MT 16.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 81.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Prairie county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 81.0% to 16.9%.
Prairie county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 59349 (Terry, MT) is very conservative.
Terry, Montana is very conservative.
Prairie County, Montana is very conservative.
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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.
Terry, 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 59349 (Terry)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 116 contributions totaling $5,496 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $47 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 34 contributions totaling $6,471 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $190 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)