56470 Park Rapids, MN is an area with strong political involvement from both sides of the aisle. Citizens in this area closely follow local, state, and federal politics. In recent years, several local candidates have run for office in Park Rapids. These include Democrats Wendy Hagen and Matt Schomburg, as well as Republicans Kent Eken and John Carlson. All four of these candidates have focused their campaigns on issues such as education, jobs, infrastructure, and healthcare. Residents of 56470 Park Rapids are passionate about these issues and are happy to have multiple choices for representation in their local government.
The political climate in Zip 56470 (Park Rapids, MN) is strongly conservative.
Hubbard County, MN is strongly conservative. In Hubbard County, MN 34.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 63.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Hubbard county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 63.3% to 34.4%.
Hubbard county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 56470 (Park Rapids, MN) is strongly conservative.
Park Rapids, Minnesota is strongly conservative.
Hubbard County, Minnesota is strongly conservative.
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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.
Park Rapids, 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 zip 56470 (Park Rapids)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 177 contributions totaling $8,844 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $50 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 233 contributions totaling $21,874 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $94 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)