Ramsey, MN County is located in the Twin Cities metropolitan region of Minnesota. The county is governed by a five-member Board of Commissioners who are elected on a nonpartisan basis for four-year terms. There are also several local government bodies, including a mayor and city council, that govern the day-to-day affairs of the county. Local elections generally occur on odd numbered years, and political parties rarely play a role in county politics. Instead, candidates focus on issues directly affecting Ramsey County residents such as public safety, education funding, affordable housing and economic development.
The political climate in Ramsey County, MN is very liberal.
In Ramsey County, MN 71.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 26.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Ramsey county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 71.5% to 26.1%.
Ramsey county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Ramsey County, MN is very liberal.
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington Metro Area is moderately liberal.
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.
Ramsey, Minnesota: D D D D D D
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 Ramsey County, MN
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 52,491 contributions totaling $5,128,329 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $98 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 6,194 contributions totaling $4,596,312 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $742 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)