Mashpee, MA is a small town located on Cape Cod in southeastern Massachusetts. The town is governed by a Board of Selectmen and Town Manager and the government consists of an elected Town Meeting, Planning Board, and other departments to ensure the health and well-being of Mashpee's citizens. As part of the local political landscape, Mashpee elects representatives for both the Massachusetts House of Representatives and State Senate that serve on committees to review legislation affecting our community. Several local organizations also exist to ensure representation from citizen activists with interests in cultural initiatives, environmental protection, economic development, education reform, public safety, public works projects and more. This broad political representation helps ensure that Mashpee's residents have a voice in statewide decisions that impact our lives.
The political climate in Mashpee, MA is leaning liberal.
Barnstable County, MA is strongly liberal. In Barnstable County, MA 61.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 36.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Barnstable county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 61.2% to 36.8%.
Barnstable county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Mashpee, MA is leaning liberal.
Barnstable County, Massachusetts is strongly liberal.
Barnstable Town Metro Area is strongly liberal.
Massachusetts is very 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.
Mashpee, Massachusetts: 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 Mashpee, MA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 11,800 contributions totaling $812,416 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $69 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,328 contributions totaling $168,160 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $127 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)