The small town of 08757 Holiday City-Berkeley, NJ has a population of around 7,500 people, and is largely populated by retirees. Politically, the town leans conservatively due to its older demographic. During elections, local candidates typically focus on issues like taxes, public safety, and infrastructure. The previous election saw several candidates running for local office including a Town Councilmember, Mayor, and Freeholder. The candidates discussed ideas on how to best improve the community while balancing their budgets responsibly and ensuring public safety. In the end, the conservative leaning voting block in Holiday City-Berkeley elected a majority conservative Town Councilmember along with a center-left mayor. This mix of ideology reflected the township’s constituents and their views on how to move forward together as a community.
The political climate in Zip 08757 (Holiday City-Berkeley, NJ) is moderately conservative.
Ocean County, NJ is strongly conservative. In Ocean County, NJ 34.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 63.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Ocean county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 63.5% to 34.9%.
Ocean county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 08757 (Holiday City-Berkeley, NJ) is moderately conservative.
Holiday City-Berkeley, New Jersey is moderately conservative.
Ocean County, New Jersey is strongly 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.
Holiday City-Berkeley, 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 three elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in zip 08757 (Holiday City-Berkeley)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 472 contributions totaling $13,810 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $29 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 214 contributions totaling $18,126 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $85 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)