Turtle Lake Township in Cass County, Minnesota is a small rural community with a population of approximately 650 people. The Township's government is led by the Town Board which consists of three elected supervisors and the town clerk. Decisions are made on issues such as roads, zoning, and other town operations. The supervisors serve overlapping terms for 3 years each. Elections for supervisor seats are held in even-numbered years during the state primary elections in August. In recent elections, there have been few contested races, indicating that local citizens feel satisfied with the current leadership. Residents of Turtle Lake Township have shown their support of these elected officials by consistently reelecting them to office.
The political climate in Turtle Lake township (Cass County), MN is strongly conservative.
Cass County, MN is strongly conservative. In Cass County, MN 34.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 63.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Cass county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 63.5% to 34.7%.
Cass county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Turtle Lake township (Cass County), MN is strongly conservative.
Cass County, Minnesota is strongly conservative.
Brainerd 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.
Turtle Lake township (Cass County), 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 Turtle Lake township (Cass County), MN
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 154 contributions totaling $14,485 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $94 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 134 contributions totaling $32,271 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $241 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)