Lakehurst, NJ is a small town located in Ocean County. Elections are held every two years and local representatives are elected to the Board of Education, Borough Council, and Mayor. The current mayor is Diane L. Burdge, who has held office since 2000. The borough council consists of seven members who are charged with managing the town’s budget and making decisions about municipal services. Lakehurst residents also have the opportunity to vote for their state-level representatives in Congress, State Assembly, and Senate. All elections provide an important opportunity for citizens to make their voices heard through voting and engaging in community discourse about local issues. It is important that all Lakehurst citizens participate in the democratic process in order to ensure that their concerns and opinions are taken into account when matters of importance arise.
The political climate in Lakehurst, NJ is somewhat conservative.
Ocean County, NJ is strongly conservative. In Ocean County, NJ 34.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 63.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Ocean county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 63.5% to 34.9%.
Ocean county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Lakehurst, NJ is somewhat conservative.
Ocean County, New Jersey is strongly conservative.
New York-Newark-Jersey City Metro Area is strongly liberal.
New Jersey 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.
Lakehurst, New Jersey: r R R R 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 Lakehurst, NJ
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 52 contributions totaling $1,034 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $20 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 9 contributions totaling $2,411 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $268 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)