Sartell, Minnesota is a small city in the St. Cloud metropolitan area of Central Minnesota. Despite its small size, Sartell has an active political scene with a variety of local issues that are the focus of political discourse and debate. The city is represented in government by a mayor and four city council members who are elected by local voters to represent their interests. The city also regularly sends representatives to the state legislature to advocate for the needs of their constituents. In addition, Sartell's residents have active groups dedicated to engaging in local politics and discussing current issues such as public safety, infrastructure improvements, environmental protection, educational funding, and more.
The political climate in Sartell, MN is moderately conservative.
Stearns County, MN is moderately conservative. In Stearns County, MN 37.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 60.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Stearns county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 60.1% to 37.6%.
Stearns county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Sartell, MN is moderately conservative.
Stearns County, Minnesota is moderately conservative.
St. Cloud Metro Area is strongly 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.
Sartell, 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 Sartell, MN
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,602 contributions totaling $83,718 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $52 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 762 contributions totaling $246,076 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $323 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)