Phoenix, NY is a small town located in central New York and is home to a diverse range of residents. The town has an active local government with regularly scheduled Town Board meetings as well as various committees that help make decisions about the town’s future. These committees include the Finance Committee which reviews and recommends changes to the budget, the Public Safety Committee which works to ensure safety for residents, and the Planning Board which makes recommendations on zoning regulations. Local elections are held once every two years when residents can choose their representatives for Town Council, Supervisor, Justice, Highway Superintendent and other positions. This provides an opportunity for citizens to exercise their right to vote and have a say in how their community is run. The town also has many civic organizations where residents can get involved in local issues such as education reform, health initiatives and environmental protection efforts. Overall, Phoenix offers its citizens many ways to be actively engaged in politics and shape the future of their community.
The political climate in Phoenix, NY is leaning conservative.
Oswego County, NY is moderately conservative. In Oswego County, NY 38.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 59.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Oswego county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 59.0% to 38.8%.
Oswego county voted Republican in four of the six previous Presidential elections (2008 and 2012 went Democratic).
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Phoenix, NY is leaning conservative.
Oswego County, New York is moderately conservative.
Syracuse Metro Area is somewhat liberal.
New York is moderately 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.
Phoenix, New York: r r 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 Phoenix, NY
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 821 contributions totaling $12,549 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $15 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 63 contributions totaling $5,892 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $94 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)