The town of Fair Haven, NJ is a vibrant and diverse community located in Monmouth County. As with any city, the political landscape of Fair Haven is ever-changing and the local residents take an active role in ensuring that their voices are heard. Every two years, locals have the opportunity to elect representatives who will represent their interests at the local, state, and national levels. Fair Haven's current elected officials include Mayor Ted Green and Township Committee members Daniel Peterson, David Brown, Joseph McGovern, and Mike Redmond. The residents of Fair Haven continually strive to ensure that their elected officials are doing what’s best for the community as a whole and actively participate in town hall meetings and other events to stay up-to-date on recent developments. They also come together during election season to make sure they have educated themselves on all of the candidates before casting their vote for those who will be representing them most effectively.
The political climate in Fair Haven, NJ is leaning conservative.
Monmouth County, NJ is leaning conservative. In Monmouth County, NJ 47.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 50.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Monmouth county remained Republican, 50.7% to 47.9%.
Monmouth county voted Republican in the last five Presidential elections, after voting Democratic in 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Fair Haven, NJ is leaning conservative.
Monmouth County, New Jersey is leaning conservative.
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.
Fair Haven, New Jersey: d r r r r r
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 Fair Haven, NJ
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 455 contributions totaling $124,158 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $273 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 172 contributions totaling $104,819 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $609 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)