Albany Township in Minnesota is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located in Stearns County. It is governed by a board of supervisors, who are elected to four-year terms. The board meets monthly to discuss the affairs of the township, which include zoning and land use regulations, road maintenance, public safety and sanitation services. The town also has a mayor and several city council members who serve two-year terms. The local political environment is one of cooperation and consensus building between the members of the township government and its citizens. Community involvement is encouraged through feedback from residents on issues such as zoning approval requests or updates to ordinances. The Board of Supervisors and City Council strive to listen to all voices while making informed decisions that benefit the entire community.
The political climate in Albany township, MN is strongly 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
Albany township, MN is strongly 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.
Albany 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 Albany township, MN
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 167 contributions totaling $9,098 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $54 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 66 contributions totaling $12,463 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $189 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)