Kansas City, KS (66101) has a vibrant political scene in which local candidates have opportunities to represent their community. The city is part of the third congressional district of Kansas and is represented by Sharice Davids. At the state level, Kansas City residents are served by Senator Barbara Bollier and Representative Rui Xu. On the local level, the mayor of Kansas City is David Alvey, who was elected in April 2019. The city council consists of 10 members that are split into 7 wards and 3 at-large seats. Each ward and at-large seat is held by elected representatives from their respective districts who serve staggered two-year terms. Issues important to Kansas City include education funding, neighborhood safety initiatives, job growth and development in downtown areas, and affordable housing initiatives. Local elections see a high turnout rate with citizens voicing their opinion on these issues among others.
The political climate in Zip 66101 (Kansas City, KS) is strongly liberal.
Wyandotte County, KS is strongly liberal. In Wyandotte County, KS 64.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 33.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Wyandotte county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 64.5% to 33.2%.
Wyandotte county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 66101 (Kansas City, KS) is strongly liberal.
Kansas City, Kansas is strongly liberal.
Wyandotte County, Kansas is strongly 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.
Kansas City, Kansas: 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 66101 (Kansas City)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 110 contributions totaling $5,381 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $49 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 19 contributions totaling $3,400 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $179 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)