The city of Hermantown, MN (55814) is located in the Arrowhead region of Minnesota and has a population of around 9,000 people. The city government provides a variety of services to its citizens including police and fire protection, public works, parks and recreation, economic development, and more. The current mayor of Hermantown is Wayne Boucher who was elected in 2020 after serving on the Hermantown City Council for over 20 years. In addition to Mayor Boucher, the city council consists of four other members who are all elected officials that serve four-year terms. On the state level, Hermantown's representation includes Senator Matt Bliss and Representatives Jennifer Schultz and Dale Lueck from District 5A and 7A respectively. All these officials come together to create laws that will benefit residents in Hermantown as well as create policies that will ensure everyone's safety.
The political climate in Zip 55814 (Hermantown, 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 55814 (Hermantown, MN) is leaning liberal.
Hermantown, 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.
Hermantown, 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 55814 (Hermantown)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 0 contributions totaling $0 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $0 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1 contributions totaling $2,000 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $2,000 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)