Welcome, MN is a small town located in southern Minnesota with a population of approximately 600 people. It is a rural area with plenty of farmland and rolling hills. The local government is made up of a mayor and five city council members who work hard to ensure the residents have the best quality of life possible. The mayor and city council members are elected on a nonpartisan basis and are accountable to the citizens of Welcome. They work together to develop laws, pass ordinances, create budgets, and provide services that benefit everyone in the community. Schools, parks, infrastructure, public safety, and other services are all managed by the local government and funded with taxes paid by residents. Issues facing Welcome include economic development, affordable housing, environmental protection, education funding, recreation opportunities, and more. Local politics in Welcome are focused on providing solutions to these issues for the long-term benefit of all its citizens.
The political climate in Zip 56181 (Welcome, MN) is very conservative.
Martin County, MN is very conservative. In Martin County, MN 30.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 67.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Martin county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 67.9% to 30.0%.
Martin county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 56181 (Welcome, MN) is very conservative.
Welcome, Minnesota is very conservative.
Martin 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.
Welcome, 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 56181 (Welcome)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2 contributions totaling $200 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $100 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 31 contributions totaling $2,557 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $82 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)