Mineral County, Colorado is located in the beautiful Rocky Mountains and is home to a diverse population of people. The county has a number of local political organizations that focus on the specific needs of the county and its citizens. These include the Mineral County Democratic Central Committee, Republican Party of Mineral County, and the Libertarian Party of Mineral County. Each organization works to promote their respective party’s values and interests in order to get candidates elected at local, state, and national levels. The county also holds regular local elections for county commissioner, sheriff, assessor-treasurer, clerk & recorder, planning board members, road & bridge board members, and other offices. Through these groups and local elections, Mineral County residents have a say in the direction that their government takes by having their voices heard through active political involvement.
The political climate in Mineral County, CO is somewhat conservative.
In Mineral County, CO 41.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 56.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Mineral county remained strongly Republican, 56.5% to 41.9%.
Mineral county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Mineral County, CO is somewhat conservative.
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Colorado is somewhat 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.
Mineral, Colorado: 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 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 Mineral County, CO
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 338 contributions totaling $13,722 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $41 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 12 contributions totaling $3,775 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $315 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)