In 55923 Chatfield, MN, politics are often a hot topic of discussion. The city is represented in the Minnesota House of Representatives and Minnesota Senate by Republicans Gene Dornink (District 27A) and Carla Nelson (District 26). Local elections are held every two years to select the city's mayor and council members. The current mayor is Paul Windorff who was elected in 2018. The City Council consists of six members: Ashley Kuechle, Kenneth Seifert, Bobbie Koehnen, Jayne Hjelmstad, Robert Gunderson and Ben Linder. They work together to ensure that the needs of all citizens are met. There have been several initiatives over the past few years aimed at improving infrastructure and public safety within the community. Residents take an active role in local government by attending city council meetings and voting in elections to voice their opinions about important issues affecting them.
The political climate in Zip 55923 (Chatfield, MN) is moderately conservative.
Fillmore County, MN is moderately conservative. In Fillmore County, MN 37.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 60.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Fillmore county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 60.1% to 37.5%.
Fillmore county voted Republican in the two most recent Presidential elections, after voting Democratic in the previous four.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 55923 (Chatfield, MN) is moderately conservative.
Chatfield, Minnesota is moderately conservative.
Fillmore County, Minnesota is moderately conservative.
Rochester Metro Area is leaning 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.
Chatfield, Minnesota: d d d d 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 55923 (Chatfield)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 77 contributions totaling $6,722 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $87 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 28 contributions totaling $14,117 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $504 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)