The small city of Minnetonka, MN is a suburb of Minneapolis and has a population of around 50,000 people. It is politically split with a majority voting for democratic candidates in many races. Locally, the mayor currently in office is Brad Wiersum, who was elected in 2016. Wiersum has enacted many policies to benefit the residents of Minnetonka by improving education and infrastructure at an affordable cost to taxpayers. Additionally, the city council is made up of 5 members from different wards around town who are responsible for making decisions on how to best spend the city's budget. As part of their duties, they have worked on issues such as providing more resources for local businesses and regulating development within the city limits. As a whole, Minnetonka is largely democratic both locally and nationally and has seen successful leadership from those in charge of running it.
The political climate in Zip 55345 (Minnetonka, MN) is moderately liberal.
Hennepin County, MN is very liberal. In Hennepin County, MN 70.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 27.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Hennepin county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 70.5% to 27.2%.
Hennepin county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 55345 (Minnetonka, MN) is moderately liberal.
Minnetonka, Minnesota is moderately liberal.
Hennepin County, Minnesota 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.
Minnetonka, 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 zip 55345 (Minnetonka)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,418 contributions totaling $308,600 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $128 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 402 contributions totaling $109,358 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $272 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)