Martinsville, NJ is a small town in Somerset County. It is located about 40 miles south of New York City and has a population of over 8,000 people. The town is governed by a mayor-council form of government with five council members. The mayor serves as the executive head of the local government and presides over the town's legislative body, which consists of the council members. In Martinsville, political candidates come from all backgrounds and ideologies. This diverse representation allows residents to have different opinions on how their community should be run. Local elections are held every four years, allowing citizens to cast their vote for their preferred candidate and voice their opinion on important issues in the community.
The political climate in Martinsville, NJ is leaning liberal.
Somerset County, NJ is moderately liberal. In Somerset County, NJ 59.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 38.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Somerset county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 59.5% to 38.5%.
Somerset county voted Democratic in the four most recent Presidential elections, after 2000 and 2004 went Republican.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Martinsville, NJ is leaning liberal.
Somerset County, New Jersey is moderately 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.
Martinsville, New Jersey: r r 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 Martinsville, NJ
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 5,953 contributions totaling $893,621 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $150 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,802 contributions totaling $942,040 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $523 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)