Whalan, MN is a small city of approximately 5,000 people. It is home to a mayor and five city council members who are elected by the citizens of Whalan every four years. The city council works together with the mayor to create regulations and laws that benefit the citizens of the city. In addition, they also work together to make sure that Whalan remains a safe and welcoming place to live. They also strive to ensure that all members of the community have access to quality education, healthcare, and recreational activities. The current mayor of Whalan is Sam Green who was first elected in 2020 and has been working hard since then to make sure all citizens can enjoy their time in Whalan without any worries or concerns. He has worked diligently on economic development, public safety initiatives, and environmental protection measures for the city. All in all, politics in Whalan, MN is focused on making the community stronger while also providing its citizens with safer streets and better resources.
The political climate in Whalan, MN is strongly conservative.
Fillmore County, MN is moderately conservative. In Fillmore County, MN 37.5% 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, Fillmore county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 60.1% to 37.5%.
Fillmore county voted Republican in the two most recent Presidential elections, after voting Democratic in the previous four.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Whalan, MN is strongly conservative.
Fillmore County, Minnesota is moderately conservative.
Rochester Metro Area is leaning 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.
Whalan, Minnesota: d d d d 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 Whalan, MN
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 43 contributions totaling $2,492 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $58 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 34 contributions totaling $2,006 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $59 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)