Dodge County, MN is a small rural county located in southeast Minnesota. It is made up of 12 townships and two cities, Dodge Center and West Concord. The county is governed by a Board of Commissioners who are elected from each township to serve four-year terms. The board sets county policy, oversees the budget, administers services, and works with local government agencies to provide for the residents of Dodge County. The county also has a mayor who serves as head of the local government and oversees day-to-day operations. The mayor is elected by the citizens every four years. Additionally, each city in the county has its own mayor and city council members that are elected separately to oversee their respective cities. Overall, politics in Dodge County are focused on providing quality services to its citizens while making sure that county policies are fair and promote economic development opportunities for all its residents.
The political climate in Dodge County, MN is strongly conservative.
In Dodge County, MN 33.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 63.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Dodge county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 63.9% to 33.5%.
Dodge county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Dodge County, MN is strongly 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.
Dodge, 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 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 Dodge County, MN
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 379 contributions totaling $15,345 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $40 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 141 contributions totaling $68,664 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $487 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)