The Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN Metro Area is a hub of politics and government activity. The area is home to numerous state and local government offices, as well as the seats of Minnesota's U.S. Senate and House Representatives. There are a number of local political candidates from both major parties vying for office in this metropolitan area, ranging from city councils to state legislative districts. These individuals come from various backgrounds, professions, and communities throughout the metro region, but they all have one common goal: representing their constituents and serving the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington community in the best way possible. The people of this metro area will have an opportunity to make their voices heard in upcoming elections as they decide who will represent them in local and state government.
The political climate in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington Metro Area is moderately liberal.
In Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington Metro Area 58.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 39.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington metro area remained very strongly Democratic, 58.5% to 39.2%.
The Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington metro area voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
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.
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, 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 four elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington Metro Area
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 253,157 contributions totaling $36,841,049 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $146 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 42,450 contributions totaling $23,460,364 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $553 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)