Lake St. Croix Beach, MN is a small city located in the eastern part of Minnesota. The city is known for its picturesque lakefront views and quaint downtown area. Politically, Lake St. Croix Beach is aligned with the Democratic-Farm-Labor Party and has traditionally had a moderate to liberal political ideology. The city is represented in the Minnesota State Legislature by Senators Tina Smith and Amy Klobuchar as well as Representatives Tom Emmer and Betty McCollum. Locally, Lake St. Croix Beach elects four representatives to the City Council who are responsible for overseeing municipal decisions including budgetary matters, infrastructure improvements, land use regulations, public safety concerns, and community development policies. Every two years citizens of Lake St. Croix Beach also elect a mayor who serves as the chief administrative officer of the city government and presides over all City Council meetings.
The political climate in Lake St. Croix Beach, MN is leaning conservative.
Washington County, MN is somewhat liberal. In Washington County, MN 53.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 44.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Washington county remained moderately Democratic, 53.5% to 44.2%.
Washington county voted Democratic in the four most recent Presidential elections, after 2000 and 2004 went Republican.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Lake St. Croix Beach, MN is leaning conservative.
Washington 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.
Lake St. Croix Beach, 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 Lake St. Croix Beach, MN
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 360 contributions totaling $22,152 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $62 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 150 contributions totaling $450,167 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $3,001 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)