Wells, MN is a small town in the southern part of Minnesota with a population of around 1,400. It has a mayor-council type government with 6 council members elected by the people who are responsible for setting policy and making decisions. The current mayor of Wells is Mike Waterman and he was elected in 2018 to serve his fourth term as mayor. Local politics in Wells tend to focus on issues such as education, economic development, public safety and infrastructure improvements. Residents of Wells are very involved in local politics and regularly attend city council meetings and other political events to make their voices heard.
The political climate in Zip 56097 (Wells, MN) is strongly conservative.
Faribault County, MN is very conservative. In Faribault County, MN 32.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 65.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Faribault county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 65.6% to 32.0%.
Faribault county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 56097 (Wells, MN) is strongly conservative.
Wells, Minnesota is strongly conservative.
Faribault County, Minnesota is very conservative.
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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.
Wells, 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 56097 (Wells)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 29 contributions totaling $1,544 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $53 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 18 contributions totaling $4,934 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $274 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)