Saratoga County is located in upstate New York and covers an area of 844 square miles. The county is home to around 223,000 people, making it the fifteenth most populous county in the state. Saratoga’s politics are largely dominated by Republicans. In the 2012 Presidential election, Mitt Romney won the county with 57 percent of the vote compared to Barack Obama’s 42 percent. The local political candidates include Matthew Veitch from the Republican Party and Carrie Woerner from the Democratic Party who are currently competing for a seat in New York's State Assembly. Both candidates have been actively campaigning around Saratoga County and debating about local issues such as taxes and public education.
The political climate in Saratoga County, NY is leaning liberal.
In Saratoga County, NY 51.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 46.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Saratoga county flipped moderately Democratic, 51.6% to 46.2%.
Saratoga county flipped Democratic in the most recent Presidential election (2000, 2004 and 2016 went Republican).
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Saratoga County, NY is leaning liberal.
Albany-Schenectady-Troy Metro Area is somewhat liberal.
New York 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.
Saratoga, New York: r r d d r 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 for the Democrat and I for the Independent. 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 Saratoga County, NY
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 16,467 contributions totaling $1,703,213 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $103 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 2,175 contributions totaling $843,918 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $388 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)