Perryville, MD is a small city located in the northeast corner of the state. The town has a long history of local politics with many passionate residents who are involved in the governing of their community. This small city is governed by a mayor and City Council, which act as the executive and legislative branches of government respectively. All members of the City Council are elected locally by citizens who are registered to vote in Perryville. Every four years, residents go to the polls to vote for a new mayor and City Council members to represent them in government. There are also several different boards and commissions that work together to ensure that Perryville's residents get the best possible services from their local government. These boards oversee things like public safety, infrastructure development, education, housing, transportation, and economic development projects.
The political climate in Perryville, MD is moderately conservative.
Cecil County, MD is strongly conservative. In Cecil County, MD 35.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 62.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Cecil county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 62.0% to 35.4%.
Cecil county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Perryville, MD is moderately conservative.
Cecil County, Maryland is strongly conservative.
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington Metro Area is strongly 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.
Perryville, Maryland: R R R R R R
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 Perryville, MD
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 171 contributions totaling $5,277 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $31 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 117 contributions totaling $16,942 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $145 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)