Goffstown, New Hampshire is a small town located in Hillsborough County with roughly 17,000 residents. It is home to the offices of the town government and its citizens take an active part in local politics. Every two years residents cast their ballots for members of the Board of Selectmen as well as other important positions within the town government. Issues that have recently been addressed by Goffstown's political leaders include zoning regulations, budgetary concerns, and infrastructure improvements. Additionally, community organizations such as the Greater Goffstown Network are actively engaged in lobbying elected officials on behalf of constituents. As such, it is clear that politics plays an important role in Goffstown's civic life and culture.
The political climate in Zip 03045 (Goffstown, NH) is leaning liberal.
Hillsborough County, NH is leaning liberal. In Hillsborough County, NH 52.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 45.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Hillsborough county flipped moderately Democratic, 52.8% to 45.2%.
Hillsborough county flipped Democratic in the most recent Presidential election (2000, 2004 and 2016 went Republican).
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 03045 (Goffstown, NH) is leaning liberal.
Goffstown, New Hampshire is leaning liberal.
Hillsborough County, New Hampshire is leaning liberal.
Manchester-Nashua Metro Area is leaning liberal.
New Hampshire is leaning 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.
Goffstown, New Hampshire: 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 zip 03045 (Goffstown)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 770 contributions totaling $61,416 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $80 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 155 contributions totaling $26,591 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $172 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)