Walker Valley, New York is a small community located in upstate New York. While the area is not well known on a national level, it has had its fair share of local politics over the years. Over the past decade, residents have been active in pushing for issues that are important to them such as improving local infrastructure and increasing access to government services. Locally elected officials have worked hard to address these issues through public hearings and legislative action. Despite this, Walker Valley remains an underrepresented area when it comes to state and federal politics. Although there are no current local political candidates running at the moment, the citizens of Walker Valley remain civically engaged and committed to making their voices heard.
The political climate in Walker Valley, NY is leaning liberal.
Ulster County, NY is moderately liberal. In Ulster County, NY 59.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 38.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Ulster county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 59.5% to 38.6%.
Ulster county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Walker Valley, NY is leaning liberal.
Ulster County, New York is moderately liberal.
Kingston Metro Area is moderately 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.
Walker Valley, 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 Walker Valley, NY
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 491 contributions totaling $24,287 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $49 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 77 contributions totaling $12,516 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $163 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)