Cannon Falls, MN 55009 is a small city located in Goodhue county. Politically, the city has a council-mayor form of government, where the mayor acts as the Chief Executive Officer and the City Council serves as the legislative branch. The current mayor is Gary Peterson who was elected in 2018. The City Council is made up of five members elected by citizens to serve four year terms on a staggered basis. As for local political candidates, there are several people running for office this year including Sarah Rasmussen for mayor and Robert Sullivan and Rachel Seibert competing for open seats on the City Council. Residents of Cannon Falls will have an opportunity to make their voices heard during the upcoming elections by casting their votes for their preferred candidates.
The political climate in Zip 55009 (Cannon Falls, MN) is moderately conservative.
Goodhue County, MN is somewhat conservative. In Goodhue County, MN 41.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 56.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Goodhue county remained strongly Republican, 56.1% to 41.2%.
Goodhue county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 55009 (Cannon Falls, MN) is moderately conservative.
Cannon Falls, Minnesota is moderately conservative.
Goodhue County, Minnesota is somewhat conservative.
Red Wing Metro Area is somewhat conservative.
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.
Cannon Falls, 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 55009 (Cannon Falls)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 213 contributions totaling $7,257 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $34 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 88 contributions totaling $18,712 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $213 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)