Shakopee, Minnesota is a city located in Scott County, approximately 30 minutes south of Minneapolis. Politically, the city leans politically conservative and is represented by Republican Congressman Jason Lewis in the United States House of Representatives. Local government follows a Mayor-Council form of government with Mayor Brad Tabke presiding over the City Council composed of six members elected from three wards. The Council meets regularly to discuss and approve legislation related to the city's operations including zoning, budgeting and development. In terms of state politics, Shakopee falls under Senate District 47 and House District 48A . The current senators for these respective districts are Senator Theresa Benson (47) and Senator Bill Weber (48A). Locally, there are no political candidates running in the Shakopee area for the 2018 election cycle, however residents can participate in local elections such as school board members throughout the year.
The political climate in Zip 55379 (Shakopee, MN) is leaning conservative.
Scott County, MN is leaning conservative. In Scott County, MN 45.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 52.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Scott county remained moderately Republican, 52.1% to 45.5%.
Scott county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 55379 (Shakopee, MN) is leaning conservative.
Shakopee, Minnesota is leaning conservative.
Scott County, Minnesota is leaning conservative.
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.
Shakopee, 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 55379 (Shakopee)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,115 contributions totaling $62,412 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $56 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 241 contributions totaling $86,620 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $359 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)