Riverdale Park, MD is an incorporated town located in Prince George’s County. In its brief history of incorporation since 1945, the town has been led by an elected Mayor and Council. The current Mayor, John L. Baker Jr., was elected in 2014 and is currently serving a four-year term that ends in 2018. The town also has a diverse council that is made up of six members: four from ward 1 and two from ward 2. Each council member serves a two year term with half of the council being re-elected every year.
The politics in Riverdale Park are focused on creating a safe, vibrant place for the citizens to live, work, and play. Issues such as increasing public safety, providing quality infrastructure and services, protecting the environment, enhancing economic development opportunities, encouraging civic engagement are all at the forefront of local political discussions. Community involvement continues to be encouraged through public hearings and forums held by the Mayor and Council on various issues facing the Town.
The political climate in Riverdale Park, MD is strongly liberal.
Prince George's County, MD is very liberal. In Prince George's County, MD 89.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 8.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Prince George's county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 89.3% to 8.7%.
Prince George's county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Riverdale Park, MD is strongly liberal.
Prince George's 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.
Riverdale Park, 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 Riverdale Park, MD
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 7,934 contributions totaling $919,648 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $116 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 634 contributions totaling $113,412 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $179 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)