Wellesley, MA is a thriving community located in the greater Boston area. As an affluent suburb of Boston, it has a strong local government and active political scene. Wellesley has an elected Board of Selectmen that serves as the executive branch of the town's government. The board is responsible for creating and administering policies related to the budget, public safety, health and welfare of the citizens. In addition, Wellesley also elects Town Meeting members who serve as the legislative branch to make laws and determine policy for a two-year term. Local politics are important to Wellesley's citizens since they have direct control over how their tax dollars are spent. Despite its small size, Wellesley has seen many prominent state-level politicians such as Barack Obama campaigning in recent years. Overall, Wellesley is a politically engaged community with an impressive history of electing representatives who work hard to serve its citizens at both the local and state level.
The political climate in Wellesley, MA is moderately liberal.
Norfolk County, MA is very liberal. In Norfolk County, MA 67.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 30.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Norfolk county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 67.0% to 30.7%.
Norfolk county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Wellesley, MA is moderately liberal.
Norfolk County, Massachusetts is very 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.
Wellesley, 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 Wellesley, MA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 17,694 contributions totaling $5,565,091 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $315 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,655 contributions totaling $2,642,156 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $1,596 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)