Lake County, Minnesota, elections, 2023
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Lake County, Minnesota, held elections for local offices in 2023. Click the links below to learn more:
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County elections and candidates
August 8, 2023 (Special)
- Lake
Lake County Commissioner District 1 (Special)
- Colby Abazs (Nonpartisan)
- Joe Baltich (Nonpartisan)
- Mark Haarman (Nonpartisan)
- Paul B. Hartshorn (Nonpartisan)
- Steven Marolt (Nonpartisan)
- Jack Nelson (Nonpartisan)
- Colby Abazs (Nonpartisan)
Demographics
| Demographic Data for Lake County, Minnesota | ||
|---|---|---|
| Lake County | Minnesota | |
| Population | 10,905 | 5,706,494 |
| Land area (sq mi) | 2,109 | 79,631 |
| Race and ethnicity** | ||
| White | 96.9% | 81.6% |
| Black/African American | 0.6% | 6.4% |
| Asian | 0.1% | 4.9% |
| Native American | 0.5% | 1% |
| Pacific Islander | 0% | 0% |
| Other (single race) | 0.1% | 2.1% |
| Multiple | 1.7% | 3.9% |
| Hispanic/Latino | 1.5% | 5.5% |
| Education | ||
| High school graduation rate | 94.6% | 93.4% |
| College graduation rate | 28% | 36.8% |
| Income | ||
| Median household income | $65,201 | $73,382 |
| Persons below poverty level | 8% | 9.3% |
| Source: population provided by U.S. Census Bureau,"Decennial Census" (2020). Other figures provided by U.S. Census Bureau,"American Community Survey" (5-year estimates 2015-2020). | ||
| **Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the censushere. | ||
Presidential election results by county, 2012-2020
How a state's counties vote in a presidential election and the size of those counties can provide additional insights into election outcomes at other levels of government including statewide and congressional races. Below, four categories are used to describe each county's voting pattern over the 2012, 2016, and 2020 presidential elections:Solid,Trending,Battleground, andNew. Click [show] on the table below for examples:
| County-level voting pattern categories | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | |||||||
| Status | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 | ||||
| Solid Democratic | D | D | D | ||||
| Trending Democratic | R | D | D | ||||
| Battleground Democratic | D | R | D | ||||
| New Democratic | R | R | D | ||||
| Republican | |||||||
| Status | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 | ||||
| Solid Republican | R | R | R | ||||
| Trending Republican | D | R | R | ||||
| Battleground Republican | R | D | R | ||||
| New Republican | D | D | R | ||||
Following the 2020 presidential election,51.8% of Minnesotans lived in one of the state'snine Solid Democratic counties, which voted for the Democratic presidential candidate in every election from 2012 to 2020, and38.6% lived in one of59 Solid Republican counties. Overall, Minnesota wasSolid Democratic, having voted forBarack Obama (D) in 2012,Hillary Clinton (D) in 2016, andJoe Biden (D) in 2020. Use the table below to view the total number of each type of county in Minnesota following the 2020 election as well as the overall percentage of the state population located in each county type.
| Minnesota county-level statistics, 2020 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solid Democratic | 9 | 51.8% | |||||
| Solid Republican | 59 | 38.6% | |||||
| Trending Republican | 15 | 5.8% | |||||
| Battleground Democratic | 4 | 3.8% | |||||
| Total voted Democratic | 13 | 55.7% | |||||
| Total voted Republican | 74 | 44.3% | |||||
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See also
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