Holderness, NH is a small rural town in Grafton County. It is governed by both local and state politics. Locally, their town government focuses on issues such as public safety, infrastructure improvement, community development, fiscal responsibility, and other matters that affect the day-to-day needs of the citizens. The local political process entails citizens participating in town meetings where they can express their views on various issues that arise in the community. One of the major roles of politics in Holderness is to represent its citizens at higher levels of government. Representation from Holderness occurs through elected officials like state representatives or senators who are responsible for passing laws that benefit their constituents at the state level. Additionally, there are national politicians who work to pass bills on behalf of those living in Holderness at a Federal level. All politicians strive to ensure that Holderness’s citizens receive fair representation and have access to resources that will uplift them and their community.
The political climate in Holderness, NH is leaning liberal.
Grafton County, NH is strongly liberal. In Grafton County, NH 61.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 36.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Grafton county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 61.3% to 36.8%.
Grafton county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Holderness, NH is leaning liberal.
Grafton County, New Hampshire is strongly liberal.
New Hampshire is leaning 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.
Holderness, New Hampshire: 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 Holderness, NH
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,203 contributions totaling $650,451 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $295 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 126 contributions totaling $22,736 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $180 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)