Arthur Township is located in Traverse County, Minnesota and is a rural community with a population of just under 500 people. The township is governed by a three-member Board of Supervisors who are elected to two year terms. They are responsible for setting the budget and approving expenditures for local matters such as maintaining roads, bridges and other infrastructure, as well as providing services like garbage collection and snowplowing. Recent political issues have included efforts to ensure that residents have access to high speed internet, as well as the preservation of local farmland. Residents have the opportunity to get involved in their local government by attending town hall meetings or participating in special events held by candidates running for office. No matter their interest or involvement level, citizens of Arthur Township are encouraged to exercise their right to vote in local elections and be an active part of their community.
The political climate in Arthur township (Traverse County), MN is strongly conservative.
Traverse County, MN is strongly conservative. In Traverse County, MN 35.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 62.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Traverse county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 62.9% to 35.5%.
Traverse county voted Republican in four of the six previous Presidential elections (2008 and 2012 went Democratic).
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Arthur township (Traverse County), MN is strongly conservative.
Traverse County, Minnesota 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.
Arthur township (Traverse County), Minnesota: r r d d 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 (Traverse County), MN
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2 contributions totaling $500 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $250 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 68 contributions totaling $6,196 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $91 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)