New River, Arizona is a small town located in Maricopa County. Although it is not heavily populated, it does have a thriving local political scene. With several different candidates running for various offices, the citizens of New River are kept engaged in local politics. Issues like public safety, education, infrastructure, and economic development are important to the local residents and many of the candidates running for office focus on these issues when campaigning. The town also has multiple elected officials who are responsible for representing New River in national and state politics. Overall, the local political climate in New River is an important part of life in this small town.
The political climate in New River, AZ is leaning conservative.
Maricopa County, AZ is leaning liberal. In Maricopa County, AZ 50.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 48.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Maricopa county flipped narrowly Democratic, 50.1% to 48.0%.
Maricopa county flipped Democratic after voting Republican in the previous five Presidential elections.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
New River, AZ is leaning conservative.
Maricopa County, Arizona is leaning liberal.
Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler Metro Area is leaning liberal.
Arizona is leaning 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.
New River, Arizona: R R R R 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 New River, AZ
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 3,996 contributions totaling $469,566 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $118 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,993 contributions totaling $479,897 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $241 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)