St. Peter, Minnesota is a small city located in the southern part of Nicollet County. The city has grown steadily over the past decade and is home to a diverse population of people from all walks of life. While St. Peter does not boast a large political landscape, it does have an active political system with local candidates running for various offices within the city. These include City Council members who are responsible for representing their constituents’ interests in decisions made pertaining to budgets, taxes, and community services. Additionally, there are state-level representatives who work to ensure that laws passed at the state level adequately represent the needs and wishes of their constituents. In recent years, St. Peter has seen an increase in engagement from its citizens in terms of exercising their right to vote on these crucial issues affecting their day-to-day lives.
The political climate in St. Peter, MN is leaning liberal.
Nicollet County, MN is leaning liberal. In Nicollet County, MN 50.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 47.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Nicollet county flipped Democratic, 50.3% to 47.2%.
Nicollet county flipped back Democratic in 2020, after voting Republican in 2000 and 2016.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
St. Peter, MN is leaning liberal.
Nicollet County, Minnesota is leaning liberal.
Mankato 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. Peter, Minnesota: r 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. Peter, MN
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 532 contributions totaling $28,931 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $54 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 168 contributions totaling $326,310 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $1,942 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)