Ely, Minnesota is a small city located in Saint Louis County with a population of just over 3,700 people. Politically, the city leans slightly to the right and has historically voted for Republican candidates. In recent years, they have had two local political candidates from the Republican Party vying for office. The most recent election saw incumbent Dale J. Nelson winning his bid for mayor with 63% of the vote against challenger Chris Nelson who ran as an Independent candidate. Both candidates worked hard to make sure that all voices in the community were heard and promoted policies that would benefit everyone in Ely. Ultimately, Mayor Nelson's strong track record of service and dedication to Ely helped him win re-election. As Ely continues to grow and evolve, there will likely be more candidates emerging onto the political scene.
The political climate in Zip 55731 (Ely, MN) is leaning liberal.
St. Louis County, MN is somewhat liberal. In St. Louis County, MN 56.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 41.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, St. Louis county remained very strongly Democratic, 56.6% to 41.0%.
St. Louis county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 55731 (Ely, MN) is leaning liberal.
Ely, Minnesota is leaning liberal.
St. Louis County, Minnesota is somewhat liberal.
Duluth Metro Area is somewhat 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.
Ely, 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 55731 (Ely)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 473 contributions totaling $34,673 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $73 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 77 contributions totaling $13,996 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $182 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)