Holt Township in Marshall County, Minnesota has a long history of civic involvement and political engagement. The township is governed by three local board members who are elected to serve two-year terms. Every year, the residents of Holt Township come together to vote for the political candidates that will best represent their interests at the local level and make decisions that will shape their community. In recent years, there have been several hotly contested races that have generated a great deal of interest from those in and around Holt Township. This kind of participation is indicative of an engaged electorate that is eager to ensure that their local government takes action on issues important to them such as public safety, economic development, infrastructure improvements, and environmental protection. With each election cycle, Holt Township remains committed to encouraging the involvement of its citizens in all aspects of local politics.
The political climate in Holt township, MN is very conservative.
Marshall County, MN is very conservative. In Marshall County, MN 25.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 72.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Marshall county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 72.8% to 25.3%.
Marshall county voted Republican in five of the last six Presidential elections (2008 went Democratic).
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Holt township, MN is very conservative.
Marshall County, Minnesota is very conservative.
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.
Holt township, Minnesota: 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 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 Holt township, MN
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 225 contributions totaling $7,648 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $34 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 259 contributions totaling $28,449 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $110 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)