Jersey City, NJ is an exciting and vibrant city with a rich political landscape. Its local politics are often impacted by many state and national issues that can affect the daily lives of its citizens. At the local level, Jersey City elects a mayor, council members, a municipal clerk, and other public officials to represent their interests in the government. The city's residents actively engage in politics through various forms of community involvement such as voting, volunteering for political campaigns, attending local meetings, and being informed about current issues facing the area. Residents of Jersey City have a strong sense of civic responsibility when it comes to deciding who should lead them on the local level and what policies should be put in place to make sure that their voices are heard in their government.
The political climate in Jersey City, NJ is very liberal.
Hudson County, NJ is very liberal. In Hudson County, NJ 72.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 26.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Hudson county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 72.4% to 26.2%.
Hudson county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Jersey City, NJ is very liberal.
Hudson County, New Jersey is very liberal.
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.
Jersey City, 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 Jersey City, NJ
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 16,841 contributions totaling $2,349,840 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $140 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,240 contributions totaling $382,396 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $308 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)