Shafer Township in Minnesota is a small but vibrant community, known for its friendly and welcoming citizens. The local politics of the township are run by a five-member board that is elected to three-year terms. All political decisions are made within this board and ratified by the residents of Shafer Township. The board members have the power to set budgets, make laws, approve zoning changes, and make other important decisions that affect the township. They also have the responsibility to ensure that all local citizens have access to municipal services such as police protection, firefighting, garbage collection, street maintenance, water supply and sewage management. In addition to the board members, local political candidates often run for office in Shafer Township; these candidates campaign on issues they feel strongly about or promote their qualifications for office. Every election cycle brings new faces to the political scene in Shafer Township as residents vote for those who will best represent them on behalf of their interests.
The political climate in Shafer township, MN is strongly conservative.
Chisago County, MN is strongly conservative. In Chisago County, MN 34.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 63.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Chisago county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 63.4% to 34.2%.
Chisago county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Shafer township, MN is strongly conservative.
Chisago County, Minnesota is strongly conservative.
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington Metro Area is moderately liberal.
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.
Shafer 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 Shafer township, MN
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 63 contributions totaling $6,764 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $107 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 111 contributions totaling $12,783 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $115 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)