Grand Forks, ND is the county seat of Grand Forks County and has an estimated population of 54,967 people. The city is mainly governed by a mayor-council system, with a mayor and four council members elected at-large. The Mayor is Michael R Brown and the council members consist of Mark Jandt, Bernie Dardis, Bret Weber, Dana Sande, and Jeannie Mock. These representatives work together to ensure that the citizens of Grand Forks have quality public services like roads and transportation, safe public parks and recreation areas, and other essential services. In addition to local elections for city government positions within Grand Forks County, citizens also participate in state elections for North Dakota's State House of Representatives as well as United States congressional representatives from North Dakota in the US House of Representatives. Grand Forks also has several municipal committees dedicated to ensuring citizen involvement through community meetings and forums to discuss important issues facing the city today.
The political climate in Zip 58201 (Grand Forks, ND) is leaning conservative.
Grand Forks County, ND is somewhat conservative. In Grand Forks County, ND 41.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 54.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 3.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Grand Forks county remained strongly Republican, 54.8% to 41.6%.
Grand Forks county voted Republican in five of the last six Presidential elections (2008 went Democratic).
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 58201 (Grand Forks, ND) is leaning conservative.
Grand Forks, North Dakota is leaning conservative.
Grand Forks County, North Dakota is somewhat conservative.
Grand Forks Metro Area is moderately conservative.
North Dakota is very conservative.
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.
Grand Forks, North Dakota: R R d 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 58201 (Grand Forks)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,226 contributions totaling $270,401 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $121 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 499 contributions totaling $240,181 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $481 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)