Long Beach, NJ is a small beach town in New Jersey located along the Atlantic Ocean. It has a vibrant community and is home to many different businesses, restaurants, and attractions. It also boasts a rich political history, with several local leaders who have been influential in shaping the town’s political landscape. Some of these include former county commissioners such as Robert W. Gaffney Jr., Kenneth S. Baum, and Claudine B. Cappel-Gaffney; state senators like Nicholas Asselta and Jeff Van Drew; Assembly members like Matthew Milam and Chris Brown; and local mayors such as John J. Giattino Sr., Brian J. Keffer, and William J. Langenberger Jr. Despite their differences in opinion, these individuals have all worked together to make sure that Long Beach continues to be an ideal place to live for its residents.
The political climate in Long Beach, NJ is moderately conservative.
Ocean County, NJ is strongly conservative. In Ocean County, NJ 34.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 63.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Ocean county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 63.5% to 34.9%.
Ocean county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Long Beach, NJ is moderately conservative.
Ocean County, New Jersey is strongly conservative.
New York-Newark-Jersey City Metro Area is strongly liberal.
New Jersey 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.
Long Beach, New Jersey: r R R R 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 Long Beach, NJ
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,062 contributions totaling $113,106 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $107 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 592 contributions totaling $163,622 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $276 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)