Hockessin, Delaware is an unincorporated community located in New Castle County. The area is home to a variety of different businesses, recreational activities, and historic sites. Hockessin has strong political ties with both the Republican and Democratic Parties. Local elections are held every two years on a nonpartisan basis in which local candidates present their vision for the future of Hockessin to the public. Political issues important to the residents of Hockessin include environmental protection, education reform, economic development, and maintaining a safe and vibrant community. Candidates from both major parties focus on these topics when trying to win support from voters in the district. In addition to local politics, many Hockessin residents are involved in national politics through their membership in various political organizations and campaigns that support national candidates and policies they believe will help benefit the community and its citizens.
The political climate in Hockessin, DE is somewhat liberal.
New Castle County, DE is very liberal. In New Castle County, DE 67.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 30.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, New Castle county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 67.8% to 30.7%.
New Castle county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Hockessin, DE is somewhat liberal.
New Castle County, Delaware is very liberal.
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington Metro Area is strongly liberal.
Delaware is moderately 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.
Hockessin, Delaware: D D 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 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 Hockessin, DE
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 7,762 contributions totaling $3,149,572 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $406 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,919 contributions totaling $2,367,279 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $1,234 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)