Short Hills, NJ is a small town located in Essex County, New Jersey. The primary industries in the area are finance and professional services, with many of its residents commuting to New York City for work. Political-wise, Short Hills lies within the 11th Congressional District of New Jersey, which is currently represented by Mikie Sherrill. At the state level, Short Hills is part of Legislative District 27 and Assemblyman John McKeon currently holds office in this district. As far as local politics go, Short Hills has an all-Democratic governing body that consists of Mayor Robert J. Tillotson and Township Council members Michael A. Goldberg and James Habel. The Council works hard to ensure that the needs of all Short Hills residents are being met while maintaining fiscal responsibility with taxpayer funds.
The political climate in Short Hills, NJ is moderately liberal.
Essex County, NJ is very liberal. In Essex County, NJ 77.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 21.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Essex county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 77.1% to 21.8%.
Essex county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Short Hills, NJ is moderately liberal.
Essex County, New Jersey is very 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.
Short Hills, 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 Short Hills, NJ
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 9,660 contributions totaling $4,152,239 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $430 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,599 contributions totaling $2,914,960 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $1,823 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)