Lester Prairie is a small town in Minnesota located in McLeod County with a population of around 1,000 people. The city is served by an elected Mayor and four City Council members. Current Mayor Kevin Mennicke has held the position since 2008 and works closely with the City Council to ensure that the needs of all residents are met. The City Council members include: Nancy Wheeler, Joe Zwack, Mark Loven and Chris Anderson. They have been working together to make decisions regarding budgeting, infrastructure projects and local ordinances that affect the quality of life in Lester Prairie. In addition to these local officials, residents of 55354 Lester Prairie also have the opportunity to vote for their state and national representatives on election day.
The political climate in Zip 55354 (Lester Prairie, MN) is very conservative.
McLeod County, MN is very conservative. In McLeod County, MN 30.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 66.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, McLeod county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 66.8% to 30.6%.
McLeod county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 55354 (Lester Prairie, MN) is very conservative.
Lester Prairie, Minnesota is very conservative.
McLeod County, Minnesota is very conservative.
Hutchinson Metro Area is very 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.
Lester Prairie, 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 55354 (Lester Prairie)
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 10 contributions totaling $705 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $71 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)