Sandia Park, NM is a small community located in the outskirts of Albuquerque. As such, it has its own local government that handles matters related to the day-to-day life of its citizens. The local government is comprised of a mayor and a city council, who oversee the various departments and programs within the town. These include police protection, parks and recreation facilities, public works projects and more. Residents are encouraged to become involved in their local politics by attending meetings or voting on issues that affect them directly. This involvement helps to ensure that the people of Sandia Park are fairly represented and have a say in how their town is run.
The political climate in Sandia Park, NM is leaning liberal.
Bernalillo County, NM is strongly liberal. In Bernalillo County, NM 61.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 36.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Bernalillo county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 61.0% to 36.6%.
Bernalillo county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Sandia Park, NM is leaning liberal.
Bernalillo County, New Mexico is strongly liberal.
Albuquerque Metro Area is moderately liberal.
New Mexico 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.
Sandia Park, New Mexico: 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 Sandia Park, NM
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,748 contributions totaling $88,488 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $51 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 282 contributions totaling $29,550 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $105 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)