East Amwell, NJ is a small town located in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. It is known for its picturesque countryside and tight-knit community. Politically, East Amwell leans to the right but the town remains rather diverse in ideology. Local residents are active in their local politics and attend town council meetings regularly to voice their opinions and concerns on various topics. The township is divided into two wards which each elects two members to the Township Committee every three years. This committee makes decisions regarding zoning laws, budgets, and other municipal matters. Additionally, East Amwell votes in county elections as well as state-level and presidential elections. While local political candidates are not discussed here, it’s clear that East Amwell has an involved citizenry who strive to ensure their voices are heard at all levels of government.
The political climate in East Amwell, NJ is leaning conservative.
Hunterdon County, NJ is leaning conservative. In Hunterdon County, NJ 46.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 51.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Hunterdon county remained Republican, 51.0% to 46.6%.
Hunterdon county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
East Amwell, NJ is leaning conservative.
Hunterdon County, New Jersey is leaning 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.
East Amwell, 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 East Amwell, NJ
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 7,639 contributions totaling $940,001 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $123 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,288 contributions totaling $2,393,629 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $1,858 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)