Rush City, MN is a small city located in Chisago County. As of 2019, the city had a population of 1,417 people. The city is served by the Rush City Public School District and is home to Rush City High School. The current mayor of Rush City is Amy Williams, who was elected in 2018 and is running for reelection this year. Rush City operates under a council-manager form of government with four elected members from each of the two wards in the city. The mayor serves a two-year term and acts as the leader of the city council. The council meets regularly to discuss issues such as budgeting, public services, economic development, and other local issues that affect its residents. Some major projects that have been completed include road construction to improve safety for drivers and new businesses being developed downtown to encourage economic growth. Overall, Rush City does not have too much political activity but citizens are able to get involved through their local representatives or by attending meetings and voicing their opinion on upcoming projects and initiatives.
The political climate in Zip 55069 (Rush City, MN) is strongly conservative.
Chisago County, MN is strongly conservative. In Chisago County, MN 34.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 63.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Chisago county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 63.4% to 34.2%.
Chisago county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 55069 (Rush City, MN) is strongly conservative.
Rush City, Minnesota is strongly conservative.
Chisago County, Minnesota is strongly conservative.
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.
Rush City, 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 55069 (Rush City)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 14 contributions totaling $301 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $22 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 24 contributions totaling $6,726 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $280 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)