Arthur Township is located in Kanabec County, Minnesota and has a unique political structure. It is governed by a township board of supervisors, which consists of five members who are elected at large to serve two-year terms. The board meets monthly to discuss issues relevant to Arthur Township and make decisions on behalf of the residents. All elections for the board are non-partisan, meaning that all candidates run under the same platform regardless of their party affiliation. Every election cycle, local citizens cast their vote for the candidate they believe will best represent their interests within the township government. This helps ensure that Arthur Township remains a politically diverse community while providing its citizens with fair representation in local government decisions.
The political climate in Arthur township (Kanabec County), MN is strongly conservative.
Kanabec County, MN is very conservative. In Kanabec County, MN 30.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 67.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Kanabec county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 67.9% to 30.0%.
Kanabec county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Arthur township (Kanabec County), MN is strongly conservative.
Kanabec County, Minnesota 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.
Arthur township (Kanabec County), 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 Arthur township (Kanabec County), MN
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 141 contributions totaling $13,393 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $95 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 61 contributions totaling $5,517 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $90 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)