Aurora Township in Minnesota is a small rural community with a population of about 5,500 people. The township is governed by a board of supervisors and a town clerk, who are elected to office every four years. The board of supervisors is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the township, while the town clerk handles administrative duties such as accounting and record keeping. Local elections are held annually, where residents have the opportunity to cast their votes for various candidates that stand for various offices. These candidates range from county sheriff to mayor, and all strive to make Aurora Township a better place to live. Residents take pride in their local politics as they are an important part of building an independent and vibrant community.
The political climate in Aurora township (Steele County), MN is strongly conservative.
Steele County, MN is moderately conservative. In Steele County, MN 37.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 59.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Steele county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 59.9% to 37.5%.
Steele county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Aurora township (Steele County), MN is strongly conservative.
Steele County, Minnesota is moderately conservative.
Owatonna Metro Area is moderately 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.
Aurora township (Steele 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 Aurora township (Steele County), MN
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 686 contributions totaling $27,691 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $40 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 206 contributions totaling $30,602 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $149 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)