Steep Falls, ME is a small town located in southern Maine. It has a population of around 3,000 people and the local government is made up of elected officials who serve the community. The town is governed by a Board of Selectmen who are responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the municipality. The Board is made up of five members, which includes an elected Town Moderator and Town Clerk. The current board members are committed to ensuring that residents have access to essential services and their voices are heard. Each election season, candidates have the opportunity to run for one of these positions and local citizens take part in the voting process to select their preferred officials. Steep Falls is proud to participate in democracy and help shape its future through its electoral process.
The political climate in Steep Falls, ME is leaning liberal.
Cumberland County, ME is very liberal. In Cumberland County, ME 66.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 30.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Cumberland county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 66.5% to 30.8%.
Cumberland county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Steep Falls, ME is leaning liberal.
Cumberland County, Maine is very liberal.
Portland-South Portland Metro Area is strongly liberal.
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.
Steep Falls, Maine: 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 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 Steep Falls, ME
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 254 contributions totaling $13,240 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $52 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 35 contributions totaling $6,895 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $197 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)