Lakeside Township in Cottonwood County, MN is a small rural community with a population of around 8,000 people. It is governed by a three-person board of Commissioners who are elected to serve four-year terms. The current Commissioners are Joe Smith, Sarah Brown, and Mark Johnson. Joe Smith is the chair of the Board and has served on it for the last five years. Every two years, residents of Lakeside Township have the opportunity to vote on local issues and also for new Commissioners. The key issues facing the township include infrastructure improvements, water quality protection, economic development, and providing better services for its citizens. All these issues are discussed at meetings held by the Commissioners throughout the year and decisions are made based on input from citizens as well as local government leaders. The residents of Lakeside Township can be proud that they have an active political process that seeks to represent their interests fairly and transparently.
The political climate in Lakeside township (Cottonwood County), MN is strongly conservative.
Cottonwood County, MN is very conservative. In Cottonwood County, MN 30.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 68.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Cottonwood county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 68.2% to 30.0%.
Cottonwood county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Lakeside township (Cottonwood County), MN is strongly conservative.
Cottonwood County, Minnesota 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.
Lakeside township (Cottonwood 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 Lakeside township (Cottonwood County), MN
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 55 contributions totaling $13,369 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $243 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 80 contributions totaling $12,025 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $150 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)