Williamstown, VT is a small rural town in Vermont with approximately 1,967 residents. Despite its small size, politics still play an important role in the local community. There are currently three members on the Williamstown Select Board: Chair June Pazdur, Vice-Chair Mike Kaminsky and Treasurer Mark Slattery. The select board works to ensure that the town’s budgetary decisions reflect the needs of its citizens and to make sure that all of Williamstown's public services are operating properly. Additionally, the town holds several annual events such as Town Meeting Day and the Williamstown Summer Festival to further engage local residents in civic life. Through these events, citizens have the opportunity to learn more about current political issues and express their opinions through public forums or voting for candidates they support. In short, politics plays an important role in this small Vermont town despite its relative lack of size.
The political climate in Williamstown, VT is leaning liberal.
Orange County, VT is strongly liberal. In Orange County, VT 60.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 36.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 3.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Orange county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 60.2% to 36.1%.
Orange county voted Democratic in the last five Presidential elections, after voting Republican in 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Williamstown, VT is leaning liberal.
Orange County, Vermont is strongly 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.
Williamstown, Vermont: r 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 Williamstown, VT
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,726 contributions totaling $79,109 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $46 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 152 contributions totaling $50,076 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $329 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)