Northborough, MA is a small town located in Worcester County in the state of Massachusetts. As such, local politics and government are important to its citizens. Northborough is part of the Worcester-Middlesex State Representative District and voters typically elect representatives from the Democratic or Republican parties to represent them at both the state and federal levels. In addition to representatives, Northborough elects members for their Town Meeting, which is the legislative body responsible for determining town governance policies. These members serve for two or three years and are elected by local residents who attend Town Meetings held several times a year. Local political candidates often come from many different walks of life, enabling citizens to have a say in their local government.
The political climate in Northborough, MA is leaning liberal.
Worcester County, MA is moderately liberal. In Worcester County, MA 57.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 39.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Worcester county remained very strongly Democratic, 57.6% to 39.7%.
Worcester county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Northborough, MA is leaning liberal.
Worcester County, Massachusetts is moderately liberal.
Worcester Metro Area is somewhat 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.
Northborough, 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 Northborough, MA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,238 contributions totaling $319,576 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $143 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 200 contributions totaling $168,012 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $840 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)