St. Paul Park, MN is a vibrant and active community with many opportunities for political engagement. With a population of 5,270 people, it's a smaller city with plenty of room to get involved in local politics. At the helm are Mayor Sandi Dingle and City Council members Bobbie Jo Callender, Jackie Davis, Claire Johnson, Doug Rohlfing and Joe Walsh. They work together to ensure that St. Paul Park remains an attractive place to live for its citizens. Through effective policymaking, they strive to keep taxes low while also providing essential services like trash pick-up and public safety. The city is also committed to investing in infrastructure projects that will help attract businesses and jobs while improving quality of life for residents. With the city's growing population and steady economic development, there are plenty of opportunities to get involved in local politics in St. Paul Park.
The political climate in Zip 55071 (St. Paul Park, MN) is leaning liberal.
Washington County, MN is somewhat liberal. In Washington County, MN 53.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 44.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Washington county remained moderately Democratic, 53.5% to 44.2%.
Washington county voted Democratic in the four most recent Presidential elections, after 2000 and 2004 went Republican.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 55071 (St. Paul Park, MN) is leaning liberal.
St. Paul Park, Minnesota is leaning liberal.
Washington County, Minnesota is somewhat liberal.
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.
St. Paul Park, Minnesota: r r d d d d
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 55071 (St. Paul Park)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 195 contributions totaling $3,793 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $19 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 23 contributions totaling $1,950 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $85 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)