New Castle, Delaware is a city that has been around for many years and is steeped in political history. The city's political landscape consists of representatives from both the Republican and Democratic parties. Both parties have had representation on the City Council since its inception and a number of mayors from each party have taken office over the years. With this rich history of politics, there are a variety of local candidates standing for election in New Castle, including two-term incumbent Mayor Mark Blakey, who is running as an independent candidate. Other candidates include former County Executive Council Member Ronald W. Gaines Jr., who is running as a Democrat, and lawyer Raymond Flamer, who is running as a Republican. All three candidates are well-known within the community and have strong platforms that are sure to draw plenty of support from voters in New Castle.
The political climate in New Castle, DE is moderately 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
New Castle, DE is moderately 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.
New Castle, 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 New Castle, DE
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,031 contributions totaling $128,763 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $63 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 170 contributions totaling $51,517 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $303 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)