South Salem, NY is a small rural community located in Westchester County. It has a population of approximately 4,000 people and is governed by the Town of Lewisboro. The town is part of the New York State Senate's 40th district and the 95th Assembly district. In terms of local political candidates, current representatives include Senator Peter Harckham for the State Senate, and Assemblywoman Sandy Galef for the Assembly District. Both are well respected in the community and have worked to improve infrastructure, support local business and encourage economic development in South Salem. They also work closely with county leadership to ensure that residents have access to quality public services. Additionally, both representatives regularly attend town meetings and hold open houses at their respective offices to ensure that local constituents have an opportunity to voice their opinions on key issues facing their community.
The political climate in Zip 10590 (South Salem, NY) is moderately liberal.
Westchester County, NY is very liberal. In Westchester County, NY 67.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 31.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Westchester county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 67.6% to 31.3%.
Westchester county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 10590 (South Salem, NY) is moderately liberal.
South Salem, New York is moderately liberal.
Westchester County, New York is very liberal.
New York-Newark-Jersey City Metro Area is strongly 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.
South Salem, New York: 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 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 10590 (South Salem)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,619 contributions totaling $200,589 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $124 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 128 contributions totaling $35,177 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $275 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)