Glen Head, NY is a small hamlet located in the town of Oyster Bay on Long Island. Politically, Glen Head has traditionally leaned conservative with most of its residents voting for Republican candidates in local and national elections. Currently, the Town Supervisor for Oyster Bay is Joseph Saladino who was elected in 2017. He is running for re-election in 2021. The town also elects two representatives to the Nassau County Legislature, while New York State Senate District 7 includes Glen Head within its boundaries. The current Senator representing this district is John Brooks, who was elected in 2018 and is now running for re-election in 2022. Locally, Glen Head is represented by the Oyster Bay Town Council which consists of three members elected from each of its five districts and an at large member elected by all of the hamlets within the town. Residents can stay informed about current issues impacting their community through public meetings held regularly by local representatives and news coverage from local media outlets such as Newsday and Journal Gazette Newspapers.
The political climate in Glen Head, 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
Glen Head, 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.
Glen Head, 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 Glen Head, NY
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 4,827 contributions totaling $1,937,019 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $401 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 920 contributions totaling $545,137 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $593 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)