Yellow Medicine County, located in the southwestern corner of Minnesota, is a rural area with a population of approximately 9,200 people. The county seat is Granite Falls and it includes several other small towns including Hanley Falls, Canby, and Clarkfield. The local government of Yellow Medicine County is led by a five-member Board of Commissioners elected to serve four-year terms. The position is non-partisan and candidates are elected at large from within the county. Other political positions in the county include two Minnesota State Senate districts represented by Republicans and two State House districts represented by Democrats. Several villages in the county also elect their own mayors and city councils to provide their own local governance. All of these roles are filled through nonpartisan elections. Overall, Yellow Medicine County provides a wide variety of opportunities for its citizens to participate in local politics and have their voices heard on important issues facing the community.
The political climate in Yellow Medicine County, MN is very conservative.
In Yellow Medicine County, MN 30.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 67.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Yellow Medicine county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 67.5% to 30.5%.
Yellow Medicine county voted Republican in five of the last six Presidential elections (2008 went Democratic).
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Yellow Medicine County, MN is very conservative.
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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.
Yellow Medicine, Minnesota: r r d 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 for the Democrat and I for the Independent. 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 Yellow Medicine County, MN
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 152 contributions totaling $7,424 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $49 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 80 contributions totaling $12,870 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $161 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)