Warren, ME is a small, rural town located in Knox County. The town is governed by a three-member Select Board and local elections are held every year. Residents of Warren have the opportunity to take an active role in their government by running for office and voting for candidates who they believe will best represent them and their interests. The town also has a regular Town Meeting each year where residents can make decisions on important issues that affect the town such as budgeting, local ordinances, and public works projects. Overall, politics in Warren is an important part of life and it encourages residents to become involved in their local government.
The political climate in Warren, ME is leaning conservative.
Knox County, ME is moderately liberal. In Knox County, ME 58.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 38.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Knox county remained very strongly Democratic, 58.7% to 38.8%.
Knox county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Warren, ME is leaning conservative.
Knox County, Maine is moderately liberal.
Maine is somewhat 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.
Warren, Maine: 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 Warren, ME
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 105 contributions totaling $4,964 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $47 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 35 contributions totaling $15,495 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $443 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)