Politics in Solomon Township (Phillips County), Kansas involve the elected representatives of local governments and other political entities. The township is part of the county-wide government, which is headed by a board of commissioners. Each commissioner represents one of the five districts within Phillips County, and are elected for four year terms. At the local level, there are three town board members who are elected to serve two-year terms. These representatives work together to develop legislation that governs daily life in the township. Additionally, Solomon Township has representation in the Kansas House of Representatives and Senate. Each representative works to create laws that benefit their constituents on both a local and state level.
The political climate in Solomon township (Phillips County), KS is very conservative.
Phillips County, KS is very conservative. In Phillips County, KS 11.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 86.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Phillips county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 86.9% to 11.4%.
Phillips county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Solomon township (Phillips County), KS is very conservative.
Phillips County, Kansas is very conservative.
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.
Solomon township (Phillips County), Kansas: 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 if the Democratic Party candidate won and I if the Independent Party candidate won. 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 Solomon township (Phillips County), KS
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 45 contributions totaling $903 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $20 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 51 contributions totaling $8,532 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $167 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)