Beach Haven West, NJ is a small waterfront community located in Ocean County, New Jersey. It has a vibrant and active political environment, with open debates and discussions about the issues that affect the local residents. Local politics focuses on issues of property taxes, zoning regulations, environmental protection, development projects, public safety, infrastructure improvements and other topics important to the community. Local elected officials are responsible for representing their constituents on these important matters and advocating for their interests at the county level. Residents have many opportunities to get involved in local politics by attending town hall meetings, engaging in debates about current issues on social media platforms or through more traditional methods like voting for their chosen representatives in local elections. This active engagement allows Beach Haven West to remain an integral part of Ocean County’s political landscape.
The political climate in Beach Haven West, 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
Beach Haven West, 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.
Beach Haven West, 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 Beach Haven West, NJ
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 626 contributions totaling $36,856 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $59 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 223 contributions totaling $56,271 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $252 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)