East Meadow, NY is a small community located in Nassau County on Long Island. It is a vibrant and diverse community with a population of approximately 34,000 people. East Meadow has its own local government that is responsible for providing services to the community. The local government consists of a mayor, four town council members, and other offices such as the chief of police, fire chief, clerk-treasurer and public works director. Elections are held every two years for all positions in order to determine who will represent the local population. Local political candidates are constantly vying for votes during election season and their campaigns focus on issues that matter to the East Meadow community. Examples include increasing public safety initiatives, addressing infrastructure needs, protecting the environment and advocating for more resources from higher levels of government in order to improve quality of life in the area.
The political climate in East Meadow, NY is leaning liberal.
Nassau County, NY is somewhat liberal. In Nassau County, NY 54.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 44.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Nassau county remained moderately Democratic, 54.1% to 44.6%.
Nassau county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
East Meadow, NY is leaning liberal.
Nassau County, New York is somewhat liberal.
New York-Newark-Jersey City Metro Area is strongly liberal.
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.
East Meadow, New York: 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 East Meadow, NY
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 4,101 contributions totaling $1,440,052 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $351 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,260 contributions totaling $2,055,597 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $1,631 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)