Kelsey, Minnesota is a small town with about 8,000 residents. Kelsey is governed by a town council, which meets on the second Tuesday of each month. The town council consists of five elected officials who are responsible for setting local policy and regulations. Current members of the Kelsey Town Council include Mayor Jeff Brown, Councilors Phil Jones, Meadow Johnson, Rachel Shaw and Mike Smith. In recent years, efforts have been made to increase public awareness of local politics by holding regular meetings at City Hall to discuss important issues facing the town. Residents often attend these meetings to voice their opinions on potential legislation or other matters related to the community. Through this citizen involvement in local politics, Kelsey has been able to maintain its small-town charm while keeping up with modern times.
The political climate in Kelsey, 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
Kelsey, 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.
Kelsey, 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 Kelsey, MN
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 28 contributions totaling $1,847 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $66 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 32 contributions totaling $4,217 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $132 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)