St. Charles, MN is a small city located in the southeastern portion of Minnesota with a population of 5,079 people according to the 2010 census. Despite its size, St. Charles is an active and engaged community with a vibrant political environment and important decisions that impact its citizens. Local elections are held regularly, allowing citizens to choose from candidates who will represent their interests on the St. Charles City Council. The council makes decisions that affect quality of life including infrastructure improvements, responsible land use and development, city services, public safety and more. With a wide range of opinions and perspectives represented in each election cycle, St. Charles is a great example of democracy in action at the local level.
The political climate in St. Charles, MN is somewhat conservative.
Winona County, MN is leaning liberal. In Winona County, MN 49.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 48.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Winona county flipped narrowly Democratic, 49.1% to 48.7%.
Winona county flipped back to Democratic in the most recent Presidential election, after voting Republican in 2016.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
St. Charles, MN is somewhat conservative.
Winona County, Minnesota is leaning liberal.
Winona Metro Area is leaning 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.
St. Charles, Minnesota: d d D D r 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 St. Charles, MN
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 19 contributions totaling $3,018 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $159 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 11 contributions totaling $1,357 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $123 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)