The city of Windom, MN 56101 is a small town located in southwest Minnesota. The city has a rich history and offers its citizens a vibrant community to call home. On the political front, the city has long been dominated by local Democratic representation with many candidates who have served on the county commission, school board, and as state representatives throughout the years. During recent elections, the party of choice for Windom residents has largely shifted to Republican candidates due to an increased need for fiscal conservatism and lower taxes. Although still heavily reliant on Democratic votes, Windom now has an even split between those preferring Republicans and Democrats in their voting decisions. This demonstrates that further outreach to both major parties may be necessary to ensure that all citizens are represented fairly in local politics.
The political climate in Zip 56101 (Windom, MN) is strongly conservative.
Cottonwood County, MN is very conservative. In Cottonwood County, MN 30.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 68.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Cottonwood county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 68.2% to 30.0%.
Cottonwood county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 56101 (Windom, MN) is strongly conservative.
Windom, Minnesota is strongly conservative.
Cottonwood 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.
Windom, 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 56101 (Windom)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 23 contributions totaling $12,395 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $539 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 44 contributions totaling $7,307 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $166 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)