Politics in Golden Valley, MN 55427 are largely influenced by the larger Twin Cities area. The city is part of Minnesota’s 3rd Congressional District and is represented by Congressman Dean Phillips in the US House of Representatives. At the state level, the city is covered by District 49A and is represented by Cheryl Youakim in the Minnesota House of Representatives. At the county level, it falls within Hennepin County Commissioner District 6, which is currently represented by Irene Fernando. Golden Valley also has its own local government with a mayor-council system and various departments dedicated to providing services to its residents such as public safety, parks and recreation, education, transportation and more. While there may not be any local political candidates in Golden Valley at this time, many of its residents are politically active and engaged in city-wide initiatives that help shape the future of their community.
The political climate in Zip 55427 (Golden Valley, MN) is strongly liberal.
Hennepin County, MN is very liberal. In Hennepin County, MN 70.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 27.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Hennepin county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 70.5% to 27.2%.
Hennepin county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 55427 (Golden Valley, MN) is strongly liberal.
Golden Valley, Minnesota is strongly liberal.
Hennepin County, Minnesota is very liberal.
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.
Golden Valley, 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 55427 (Golden Valley)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 909 contributions totaling $62,853 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $69 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 232 contributions totaling $29,101 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $125 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)