Collings Lakes, NJ is a small town located in Atlantic County. It is home to a tight-knit community of around 5,000 people. While the town itself does not have any local political candidates or an official government body, it is still heavily involved in local politics and decisions that affect the town's residents. Every election day, Collings Lakes' citizens come together to cast their ballots on important initiatives and propositions put forth by Atlantic County and state representatives. Although there are no local political candidates for this small town, residents stay abreast of current issues and take part in making their voices heard both locally and on a larger scale.
The political climate in Collings Lakes, NJ is leaning conservative.
Atlantic County, NJ is leaning liberal. In Atlantic County, NJ 52.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 46.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Atlantic county remained moderately Democratic, 52.7% to 46.0%.
Atlantic county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Collings Lakes, NJ is leaning conservative.
Atlantic County, New Jersey is leaning liberal.
Atlantic City-Hammonton Metro Area is leaning 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.
Collings Lakes, New Jersey: 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 Collings Lakes, NJ
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 952 contributions totaling $57,858 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $61 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 95 contributions totaling $12,573 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $132 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)