Sunapee, New Hampshire is a small town located in the beautiful state of New Hampshire. It has a close-knit community that is passionate about local politics. Sunapee's political landscape is made up of town officials and representatives from the two major political parties: the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. The town holds regular elections to decide which candidates will represent Sunapee in local, state, and national elections. During election season, both parties actively engage with the community through debates, rallies, and other public events to discuss important issues facing Sunapee such as education reform, economic growth, and environmental protection. Sunapee residents have an opportunity to meet their local political candidates at these events and make their voices heard during election time.
The political climate in Sunapee, NH is leaning conservative.
Sullivan County, NH is leaning liberal. In Sullivan County, NH 50.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 47.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Sullivan county flipped Democratic, 50.7% to 47.1%.
Sullivan county flipped back Democratic in 2020, after voting Republican in 2000 and 2016.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Sunapee, NH is leaning conservative.
Sullivan County, New Hampshire is leaning 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.
Sunapee, New Hampshire: r d D D r 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 Sunapee, NH
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 851 contributions totaling $70,763 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $83 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 180 contributions totaling $144,269 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $801 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)