Forest is a town located in St. Croix County, Wisconsin. The local politics of Forest are largely focused on issues that benefit the citizens of the community and ensure their safety and wellbeing. The Town Council is responsible for making decisions that reflect the needs and wants of the people of Forest. This includes crafting laws to address things such as economic development, public safety, infrastructure improvements, and more. Residents are invited to voice their opinion at town meetings where they get to discuss matters with their elected officials and learn more about what's going on in their community. Every election cycle, local political candidates come forward offering ideas for how Forest can best serve its citizens. These candidates present platforms on topics like taxes, education reform, development projects, and more in hopes of gaining enough votes from constituents to be elected into office.
The political climate in Forest town (St. Croix County), WI is moderately conservative.
St. Croix County, WI is somewhat conservative. In St. Croix County, WI 40.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 56.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, St. Croix county remained very strongly Republican, 56.8% to 40.9%.
St. Croix county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Forest town (St. Croix County), WI is moderately conservative.
St. Croix County, Wisconsin is somewhat conservative.
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington Metro Area is moderately liberal.
Wisconsin 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.
Forest town (St. Croix County), Wisconsin: 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 if the Democratic Party candidate won and I if the Independent Party candidate won. 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 Forest town (St. Croix County), WI
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 45 contributions totaling $2,312 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $51 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 42 contributions totaling $6,467 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $154 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)