Friendship Heights Village, MD is a small, affluent village located near the Maryland/DC border in Montgomery County. It is home to a diverse population with many different political views and ideologies. In terms of local politics, Friendship Heights has an elected mayor and council in charge of running day-to-day operations in the village. The current mayor is Joel Rubin, who was elected in 2017 after serving 4 years on the village's Board of Directors. The Council consists of five members who are elected at-large by voters in Friendship Heights Village who must be at least 18 years old and reside within the village limits. They meet regularly to discuss issues pertinent to the Village, such as maintaining public safety, managing finances and taxes, providing municipal services, and handling code enforcement issues. Additionally, Friendship Heights is served by Montgomery County Councilmember Hans Riemer who advocates for all parts of the county including Friendship Heights on various issues from transportation to climate change initiatives.
The political climate in Friendship Heights Village, MD is very liberal.
Montgomery County, MD is very liberal. In Montgomery County, MD 78.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 19.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Montgomery county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 78.6% to 19.0%.
Montgomery county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Friendship Heights Village, MD is very liberal.
Montgomery County, Maryland is very liberal.
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria Metro Area is very liberal.
Maryland is very 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.
Friendship Heights Village, Maryland: 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 Friendship Heights Village, MD
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 44,271 contributions totaling $25,840,545 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $584 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 2,139 contributions totaling $1,750,696 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $818 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)