The town of Paris, ME is a small rural community located in Oxford County. It has a population of around 3,000 people and is governed by an elected Board of Selectmen who act as the executive branch, while the legislative branch is the Paris Town Meeting. The town has a wide variety of businesses and services to support its citizens, and there are numerous local organizations ranging from environmental groups to community events organizations that help strengthen the town's sense of community. Political issues that are of particular importance to Paris include maintaining a healthy environment, creating job opportunities for residents, and limiting taxes on residents. In addition to these issues, Paris voters are closely following trends in state and national politics as they play an important role in their day-to-day life. Local political candidates do not often make appearances at the annual town meeting but they do campaign actively in the lead up to state elections and national elections for both the House and Senate seats.
The political climate in Paris, ME is somewhat conservative.
Oxford County, ME is somewhat conservative. In Oxford County, ME 44.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 52.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 3.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Oxford county remained moderately Republican, 52.8% to 44.1%.
Oxford county voted Republican in the two most recent Presidential elections, after voting Democratic in the previous four.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Paris, ME is somewhat conservative.
Oxford County, Maine is somewhat conservative.
Maine 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.
Paris, Maine: d d D D 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 if the Democratic Party candidate won and I if the Independent Party candidate won. 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 Paris, ME
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 162 contributions totaling $8,242 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $51 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 91 contributions totaling $19,367 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $213 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)