WELCOME TO THE HOME PAGE OF

THE ELECTION TRENDS PROJECT

We believe Local History is too important to be left to the professionals!

Our mission is:

  1. to provide a clearinghouse for stories about politics in Minnesota
  2. to provide complete local elections returns for every community in the State of Minnesota
  3. to provide the most accurate inventories possible of local elected officials in our state

In 2007, we at Highwood Press began publishing online the only complete, state-wide clearinghouse of local political data and stories in the United States. The results of all municipal elections in the history of the state will ultimately be available here. So will inventories of everyone who has held local office in the history of the state. These records, which have never before been collected in one central place, will bring to light 150 years of Minnesota's political history.

In addition to political data, this web site will be a clearinghouse for stories about local political history, an on-line encyclopedia of Minnesota history.

WE ESPECIALLY ENCOURAGE SCHOOLCHILDREN TO CONTRIBUTE TO THIS SITE. We want to collaborate with schools to bring local history into the curriculum. When students work on local history, they develop a heightened sense of community, while developing their minds and their potential. The skills they learn while working on local history projects are skills they will use in life--writing, researching, weighing evidence, asking questions.

Contact us at: highwoodpress@hotmail.com

We welcome your donations of time and money. See the Contributions page.