Wilkin County, MN is a small rural county with an estimated population of just over 10,000 people. There is one main governing body for the county – Wilkin County Board of Commissioners – which are responsible for making the laws and regulations that govern the county. The board consists of five commissioners who are elected to serve four-year terms by the residents of Wilkin County. Each year, the board elects a chair and vice chair from among its members. The board also appoints other committees to help them handle various tasks such as public safety, environmental protection, transportation and economic development. Each commissioner is also assigned certain responsibilities for specific areas of focus within their respective districts throughout the county. Wilkin County aims to maintain a strong sense of local control over its government while still achieving balance with other counties and state-level governments in Minnesota.
The political climate in Wilkin County, MN is very conservative.
In Wilkin County, MN 29.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 67.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Wilkin county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 67.9% to 29.9%.
Wilkin county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Wilkin County, MN is very conservative.
Wahpeton Metro Area is very 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.
Wilkin, 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 Wilkin County, MN
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 48 contributions totaling $8,558 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $178 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 121 contributions totaling $12,566 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $104 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)