Hingham, MA is a beautiful seaside town located just south of Boston. Despite its small size, Hingham is an active and engaged community with vibrant politics. Local elections are held annually for the Town Moderator, Board of Selectmen, Town Clerk, and School Committee members. Elections are also held for each of the six precincts within the town and a Town Meeting Member from each precinct. Candidates in each race come from all political backgrounds and support different agendas, but they all work together to ensure that Hingham remains a safe, prosperous community. In addition to these races, several statewide and national politicians have ties to Hingham, making it an important area in the Massachusetts political scene.
The political climate in Hingham, MA is leaning liberal.
Plymouth County, MA is moderately liberal. In Plymouth County, MA 57.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 40.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Plymouth county remained very strongly Democratic, 57.5% to 40.2%.
Plymouth county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Hingham, MA is leaning liberal.
Plymouth County, Massachusetts is moderately 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.
Hingham, 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 Hingham, MA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 14,276 contributions totaling $4,908,914 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $344 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,438 contributions totaling $1,560,386 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $1,085 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)