Melrose Township, located in Minnesota, is a rural community with a population of over 3,000 people. The township is governed by a board of three Supervisors and an appointed Town Clerk. Each Supervisor holds their position for three years and the Clerk serves at the pleasure of the Board. Local elections are held yearly to elect the Supervisors who then appoint the Town Clerk. In recent years, Melrose Township has seen an increase in voter turnout as residents have become more engaged in local politics. The current local political candidates include John Doe, Joe Smith, and Jane Doe, all vying for two open supervisor positions on the Board. With this upcoming election, residents will be able to vote on important issues that affect their community such as zoning regulations and road maintenance projects. It's clear that Melrose Township is committed to providing its citizens with fair representation in government through the democratic process of voting.
The political climate in Melrose township, MN is moderately conservative.
Stearns County, MN is moderately conservative. In Stearns County, MN 37.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 60.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Stearns county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 60.1% to 37.6%.
Stearns county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Melrose township, MN is moderately conservative.
Stearns County, Minnesota is moderately conservative.
St. Cloud Metro Area is strongly conservative.
Minnesota is leaning liberal.
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.
Melrose township, Minnesota: 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 Melrose township, MN
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 819 contributions totaling $21,092 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $26 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 61 contributions totaling $9,126 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $150 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)