Elmer Township in St. Louis County, Minnesota is a rural community with a population of around 500 people. It is governed by local representatives that are elected from the township and across the county. Over the years, a variety of candidates have sought to represent the residents of Elmer Township on matters of taxes, education, public safety, and other important issues. The current political representatives for Elmer Township include Mayor Mark Fazendin who has served since 2018 as well as three Town Council members: John Baldridge, Robert Lewis, and Billie Jo Davis. These representatives have worked hard to ensure that Elmer Township's residents are provided with the best possible services and resources available to them while also paying attention to fiscal responsibility and transparency.
The political climate in Elmer township (St. Louis County), MN is leaning conservative.
St. Louis County, MN is somewhat liberal. In St. Louis County, MN 56.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 41.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, St. Louis county remained very strongly Democratic, 56.6% to 41.0%.
St. Louis county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Elmer township (St. Louis County), MN is leaning conservative.
St. Louis County, Minnesota is somewhat liberal.
Duluth Metro Area is somewhat 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.
Elmer township (St. Louis County), Minnesota: D D 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 Elmer township (St. Louis County), MN
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 29 contributions totaling $1,536 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $53 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 2 contributions totaling $300 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $150 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)