The Ocean City, NJ Metro Area is a bustling coastal community with a strong sense of local pride and history. Politically, the area is home to a range of political views and parties. The region has an active voter turnout and has seen some competitive elections in recent years. Local politicians have tackled issues such as economic development, public infrastructure, education reform, public safety, and immigration. Politicians from both major parties have also worked to ensure that the interests of Ocean City residents are represented in the state legislature. Overall, the politics in this Metro Area show a commitment to working together for the common good of all its citizens.
The political climate in Ocean City Metro Area is somewhat conservative.
In Ocean City Metro Area 41.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 57.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, the Ocean City metro area remained very strongly Republican, 57.2% to 41.3%.
The Ocean City metro area voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Ocean City Metro Area is somewhat conservative.
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.
Ocean City, New Jersey: r 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 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 four elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in Ocean City Metro Area
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 4,852 contributions totaling $417,277 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $86 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 902 contributions totaling $375,703 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $417 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)