Ocean Township (Ocean Cnty), NJ is an area that is highly involved in the political process. The local government is managed by a Board of Commissioners, who are elected on a nonpartisan basis to serve four-year terms. In addition to this board, committees and advisory boards have been established in order to ensure that the residents of Ocean Township are actively engaged in their local politics. Local politicians come from either party and the public is encouraged to become involved in electoral processes. The residents regularly vote for school boards, county representatives, state senators, and federal representatives to represent their interests at all levels of government. Politics in Ocean Township plays an important role in the lives of its citizens and as such should not be taken lightly.
The political climate in Ocean township (Ocean County), NJ is moderately 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 township (Ocean County), NJ is moderately 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 township (Ocean County), 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 township (Ocean County), NJ
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,573 contributions totaling $181,355 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $70 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 792 contributions totaling $188,844 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $238 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)