Grand Island, NE, located in Hall County, is a friendly and vibrant city that has an active political scene. The City of Grand Island is governed by a Mayor-Council system of government. The current mayor of Grand Island is Roger Steele and the 7 member Council are Todd Schardt (President), Tonya McDowell (Vice President), Dan Smith, Curtis Luehring, Peggy O’Neill, Stan Clouse, and Joe Skow. Each year there are local elections for the City Council which allow residents to participate in democracy by selecting their representatives. Furthermore, this city is part of Nebraska’s Third Congressional District represented in Congress by Congressman Adrian Smith. At the state level, Grand Island is represented by Senator Dan Quick from District 34 and Senator John Lowe from District 35 in the Nebraska Legislature. The people of 68803 Grand Island are passionate about politics and have many opportunities to get involved with their democratic process at all levels.
The political climate in Zip 68803 (Grand Island, NE) is strongly conservative.
Hall County, NE is very conservative. In Hall County, NE 31.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 66.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Hall county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 66.2% to 31.4%.
Hall county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 68803 (Grand Island, NE) is strongly conservative.
Grand Island, Nebraska is strongly conservative.
Hall County, Nebraska is very conservative.
Grand Island Metro Area is very conservative.
Nebraska 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.
Grand Island, Nebraska: 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 68803 (Grand Island)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 183 contributions totaling $26,428 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $144 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 149 contributions totaling $39,131 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $263 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)