Burnsville, Minnesota is a vibrant city located in the southern Twin Cities metro region. While it may not have as large of a population as some other cities in the area, it still has an active political community that serves its citizens. The city council is composed of seven members who are elected at-large by the voters of Burnsville. Each member serves a four-year term and helps to make decisions on issues such as infrastructure, public safety, health and human services, financial management, economic development and more. Additionally, Burnsville residents have access to several local candidates who run for office within the county or state legislatures. With so many different candidates running for office each year, Burnsville residents have a wide variety of voices to choose from when selecting their political representatives.
The political climate in Burnsville, MN is somewhat liberal.
Dakota County, MN is somewhat liberal. In Dakota County, MN 55.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 41.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Dakota county remained strongly Democratic, 55.7% to 41.8%.
Dakota county voted Democratic in the four most recent Presidential elections, after 2000 and 2004 went Republican.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Burnsville, MN is somewhat liberal.
Dakota County, Minnesota is somewhat liberal.
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington Metro Area is moderately liberal.
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.
Burnsville, Minnesota: r r d d d D
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 Burnsville, MN
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 3,879 contributions totaling $326,345 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $84 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,587 contributions totaling $621,103 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $391 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)