Red Lake, ND is a small town with a population of around 5,000 people. It has a unique political atmosphere due to its size and history. The politics of Red Lake are largely driven by the local elections that take place every few years to elect city council members who make decisions about the town's future. In the most recent election, five candidates ran for three spots on the city council. These candidates included longtime residents and newcomers, offering varied perspectives and opinions on how to best serve the town. Issues such as economic development, public safety, education, infrastructure maintenance, and environmental issues were discussed at length in order to determine how best to address them going forward. Ultimately, all five candidates sought to make Red Lake a better place for its citizens.
The political climate in Red Lake, ND is strongly conservative.
Logan County, ND is very conservative. In Logan County, ND 11.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 86.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Logan county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 86.4% to 11.9%.
Logan county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Red Lake, ND is strongly conservative.
Logan County, North Dakota is very conservative.
North Dakota is very 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.
Red Lake, North Dakota: 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 Red Lake, ND
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 32 contributions totaling $5,825 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $182 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 2 contributions totaling $210 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $105 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)