Rush City, MN is a small town surrounded by forests and lakes. Despite its size, the city has a vibrant political landscape. Rush City is part of Chisago County in Minnesota and the county Board of Commissioners has direct control over local government decisions. The current mayor of Rush City is Scott Bolen who was re-elected in 2018 for a four-year term. Residents also have the opportunity to vote for representatives in national elections as well as state representative elections that include candidates from both major parties. Issues like taxation, infrastructure, and public safety are important to Rush City residents and they take an active part in local, state, and national politics when it comes time to cast their ballot.
The political climate in Rush City, MN is moderately conservative.
Chisago County, MN is strongly conservative. In Chisago County, MN 34.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 63.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Chisago county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 63.4% to 34.2%.
Chisago county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Rush City, MN is moderately conservative.
Chisago County, Minnesota is strongly conservative.
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.
Rush City, 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 Rush City, MN
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 14 contributions totaling $301 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $22 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 24 contributions totaling $6,726 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $280 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)