Eagle Lake Township, MN is a small rural community located in the North of Minnesota. It has a long tradition of political activism and participation in local government. Eagle Lake Township is represented by several elected officials, including the Mayor, two Town Council members, and five Town Board Members. The primary goal of these elected officials is to ensure that the best interests of Eagle Lake Township citizens are served, while maintaining a sense of fiscal responsibility. Each official is tasked with promoting the general welfare of all residents and businesses within the township, in addition to managing public funds and services. Local elections are held every four years for each position, allowing citizens to exercise their right to choose who will represent them in local government matters.
The political climate in Eagle Lake township (Otter Tail County), MN is strongly conservative.
Otter Tail County, MN is very conservative. In Otter Tail County, MN 32.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 65.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Otter Tail county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 65.4% to 32.9%.
Otter Tail county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Eagle Lake township (Otter Tail County), MN is strongly conservative.
Otter Tail County, Minnesota is very conservative.
Fergus Falls Metro Area 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.
Eagle Lake township (Otter Tail 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 Eagle Lake township (Otter Tail County), MN
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 224 contributions totaling $6,262 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $28 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 40 contributions totaling $5,054 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $126 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)