Weymouth Town, MA is a town with an active political landscape. It's located in Norfolk County, and governed by a five-member Board of Selectmen. The board is elected for three-year terms, and selects from among their members an Executive Officer who serves as the Town’s chief executive. This board is responsible for setting policy, developing and approving budgets, approving contracts and housing developments, and providing oversight on projects throughout the community. Additionally, Weymouth residents vote in local, state and federal elections to determine their representatives in those respective offices. Local issues are regularly discussed at City Hall meetings which are open to the public and provide citizens with a venue to voice their opinions on important matters. The Town is also home to several well-known political organizations that work to support or oppose various political candidates or policies. Weymouth Town thus has a vibrant and robust political atmosphere that provides its citizens with ample avenues for voicing their opinion on important matters facing the community today.
The political climate in Weymouth Town, MA is moderately liberal.
Norfolk County, MA is very liberal. In Norfolk County, MA 67.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 30.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Norfolk county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 67.0% to 30.7%.
Norfolk county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Weymouth Town, MA is moderately liberal.
Norfolk County, Massachusetts is very 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.
Weymouth Town, 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 Weymouth Town, MA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,253 contributions totaling $202,407 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $90 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 347 contributions totaling $69,272 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $200 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)