Inver Grove Heights, MN is a vibrant city located in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. It has an active and engaged political system that involves local residents in all aspects of decision making. Residents have access to a variety of elected officials at the local, state, and federal level. The city council is made up of seven members who are elected to four-year terms. They are responsible for setting and approving budgets, enacting laws, and providing services that benefit the community as a whole. Additionally, residents can vote on referendums that determine changes to taxes or public projects like parks and roads. All these options ensure that Inver Grove Heights is well represented politically by the people who live there.
The political climate in Inver Grove Heights, MN is leaning 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
Inver Grove Heights, MN is leaning 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.
Inver Grove Heights, 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 Inver Grove Heights, MN
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 11,884 contributions totaling $744,572 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $63 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,623 contributions totaling $491,031 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $303 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)