Park Ridge, New Jersey is a small town located in Bergen County. It has a rich history and an engaged community that is actively involved in local politics. This city is represented by the mayor, Thomas Auriemma, and 6 council members on the Park Ridge City Council. The city council meets regularly to discuss and vote on issues that affect the everyday lives of Park Ridge residents. The council also works with other local officials to ensure that state and federal resources are allocated appropriately for the benefit of all citizens. Additionally, Park Ridge has many candidates running for office each election year who seek to represent the citizens’ best interests in government. Each of these candidates brings their own ideas and perspectives on how to improve the city and provide services such as public safety, infrastructure development, education, parks, recreation, and more. Overall, Park Ridge is an active political community with individuals who strongly believe in their right to make their voice heard through municipal elections.
The political climate in Park Ridge, NJ is leaning liberal.
Bergen County, NJ is moderately liberal. In Bergen County, NJ 57.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 41.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Bergen county remained very strongly Democratic, 57.4% to 41.1%.
Bergen county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Park Ridge, NJ is leaning liberal.
Bergen County, New Jersey is moderately liberal.
New York-Newark-Jersey City Metro Area is strongly liberal.
New Jersey is somewhat 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.
Park Ridge, New Jersey: 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 Park Ridge, NJ
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,490 contributions totaling $65,220 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $44 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 178 contributions totaling $398,953 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $2,241 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)