St. Martin, MN is a small town located in the rural Midwest of the United States. While it's population is only around 500 people, the politics of St. Martin still matter to its citizens. Local elections are held every year to determine who will lead St. Martin and make decisions on behalf of its residents. The town has a mayor and other local officials who are responsible for tasks such as providing access to public services, taxes and zoning regulations. To ensure that citizens' voices are heard, candidates for these positions must be qualified to lead St. Martin responsibly and with transparency. Residents have great influence over their local government by voting for candidates who can best represent their values and needs in local decisions made by their elected officials.
The political climate in St. Martin, MN is strongly 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
St. Martin, MN is strongly 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.
St. Martin, 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 St. Martin, MN
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 17 contributions totaling $246 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $14 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 114 contributions totaling $11,651 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $102 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)