Caribou, ME is a small city in the northern part of the state. It is home to a thriving community of hard-working people and has served as an important center of commerce for decades. The politics of Caribou are mostly driven by local elections, with candidates often coming from both major parties. Issues that come up in these elections range from taxes, budgets, and services like public transportation to environmental concerns like clean energy initiatives and climate change. The local candidates running for office in Caribou typically focus on creating jobs, implementing policies that will spur economic growth, and improving the quality of life for residents. Residents have also become more active in recent years in pushing their representatives to address issues such as protecting the environment, ensuring adequate funding for education and public safety programs, and creating sensible regulations that promote healthy lifestyles.
The political climate in Caribou, ME is somewhat conservative.
Aroostook County, ME is moderately conservative. In Aroostook County, ME 39.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 59.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Aroostook county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 59.1% to 39.0%.
Aroostook county voted Republican in the two most recent Presidential elections, after voting Democratic in the previous four.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Caribou, ME is somewhat conservative.
Aroostook County, Maine is moderately conservative.
Maine is somewhat 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.
Caribou, Maine: d d d d 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 Caribou, ME
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 206 contributions totaling $10,107 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $49 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 77 contributions totaling $17,018 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $221 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)