East Lyme, Connecticut is a town located in the southeastern part of the state and has a rich political history. The town is governed by an elected Board of Selectmen who are responsible for making decisions on behalf of its citizens. East Lyme is also part of the much larger New London County which elects state representatives to serve in the Connecticut General Assembly. On the local level, East Lyme residents have a variety of options for choosing their political representation including school boards, town meetings, and even special district elections. All in all, politics play an important role in East Lyme's civic life and residents take their right to vote seriously. With multiple avenues for engaging politically, East Lyme remains an active community that values democratic engagement at both the local and state levels.
The political climate in East Lyme, CT is leaning liberal.
New London County, CT is somewhat liberal. In New London County, CT 56.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 40.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, New London county remained very strongly Democratic, 56.9% to 40.9%.
New London county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
East Lyme, CT is leaning liberal.
New London County, Connecticut is somewhat liberal.
Norwich-New London Metro Area is somewhat liberal.
Connecticut 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 Lyme, Connecticut: 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 Lyme, CT
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 4,260 contributions totaling $260,418 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $61 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 392 contributions totaling $36,431 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $93 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)