The town of Conklin, NY is a small community located in Broome County. It is home to many hardworking citizens who take great pride in their local politics. The town has an elected mayor as well as four councilmembers who are responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of the community. It also has two representatives in the county legislature who help ensure that their constituents’ voices are heard and that their needs and interests are represented at the state level. The town generally votes along party lines and there is usually a healthy debate between candidates during election season. Residents of Conklin take pride in being able to express their opinions on local issues, and take part in making decisions about how the town should be managed.
The political climate in Conklin, NY is leaning conservative.
Broome County, NY is leaning liberal. In Broome County, NY 50.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 47.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Broome county flipped Democratic, 50.5% to 47.1%.
Broome county flipped back to Democratic in the most recent Presidential election, after voting Republican in 2016.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Conklin, NY is leaning conservative.
Broome County, New York is leaning liberal.
Binghamton Metro Area is leaning conservative.
New York is moderately 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.
Conklin, New York: d d d d r 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 Conklin, NY
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,054 contributions totaling $180,086 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $171 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 269 contributions totaling $65,675 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $244 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)