New Ulm is a city located in Minnesota with a population of around 14,000 people. The city has a strong democratic tradition that is reflected in the political landscape of the city. New Ulm’s mayor since 2006 has been Robert Beussman, who was re-elected in 2018 to serve his sixth term in office. In the state legislature, New Ulm is represented by Senator Andrew Lang and State Representative Paul Torkelson. At the federal level, New Ulm is represented by Representative Tim Walz in Congress. Walz recently announced he will not run for another term due to ongoing health issues. In general, the people of New Ulm are politically active and take pride in their ability to have their voices heard on local and national issues through their representatives at all levels of government.
The political climate in New Ulm, MN is moderately conservative.
Brown County, MN is very conservative. In Brown County, MN 32.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 65.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Brown county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 65.3% to 32.5%.
Brown county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
New Ulm, MN is moderately conservative.
Brown County, Minnesota is very conservative.
New Ulm Metro Area is very 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.
New Ulm, 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 New Ulm, MN
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 517 contributions totaling $59,482 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $115 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 88 contributions totaling $22,191 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $252 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)