Andover, MA is a small town located 25 miles north of Boston. It is home to some 30,000 residents who are proud to call the town their own. Andover has a small-town feel, with local businesses providing many jobs and services to the community. The town is also served by an active political landscape that takes part in local elections each year. Residents of Andover come out in full force each election cycle to cast their ballots for candidates that they believe will best represent their interests and values in office. The politics of Andover are primarily based around issues like education, public safety, and infrastructure development as well as social issues such as marriage equality and immigration reform. Each candidate brings their own ideas and platforms to the table, creating a vibrant atmosphere of debate during campaigns that are ultimately decided by the citizens on Election Day.
The political climate in Andover, MA is somewhat liberal.
Essex County, MA is strongly liberal. In Essex County, MA 63.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 34.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Essex county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 63.4% to 34.4%.
Essex county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Andover, MA is somewhat liberal.
Essex County, Massachusetts is strongly liberal.
Boston-Cambridge-Newton Metro Area is very liberal.
Massachusetts is very 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.
Andover, Massachusetts: 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 Andover, MA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 12,926 contributions totaling $2,562,272 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $198 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,310 contributions totaling $821,510 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $627 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)