The small town of Ocean Gate, NJ is a quaint and peaceful place located on the Jersey Shore. The population of this town is just around 2,000 people. Despite its size, politics are an important part of life in Ocean Gate. While there are no local political candidates running for office at this time, citizens of Ocean Gate take pride in their civic duty and actively participate in the democratic process by voting on issues that affect their community. The most popular issues include education, public safety, infrastructure, and environmental protection. Therefore, whether or not there are local political candidates running for office, it is clear that the folks of Ocean Gate take politics seriously and have an active role to play in shaping their future.
The political climate in Ocean Gate, NJ is somewhat 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
Ocean Gate, NJ is somewhat 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.
Ocean Gate, 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 Ocean Gate, NJ
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 213 contributions totaling $8,940 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $42 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 211 contributions totaling $11,502 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $55 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)