Middleton, MA is a town with a strong sense of community. Due to its smaller size, the politics in Middleton are relatively low-key. The town is governed by an elected select board as well as a representative town meeting. The select board consists of five members who are elected for three-year terms, and the town holds elections every other year. This setup helps ensure that residents are able to participate in local decision-making and that their individual voices are heard. Additionally, the representative town meeting includes representatives from each neighborhood in Middleton, allowing them to directly participate in policy-making decisions that affect their own communities. Through this structure, Middleton citizens are able to have a say in how their community is run and what laws and regulations they want to follow.
The political climate in Middleton, MA is somewhat liberal.
Essex County, MA is strongly liberal. In Essex County, MA 63.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 34.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Essex county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 63.4% to 34.4%.
Essex county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Middleton, MA is somewhat liberal.
Essex County, Massachusetts is strongly liberal.
Boston-Cambridge-Newton Metro Area is very liberal.
Massachusetts 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.
Middleton, Massachusetts: 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 Middleton, MA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 336 contributions totaling $50,818 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $151 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 129 contributions totaling $21,565 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $167 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)