The small town of Dover, NY is a close-knit community with a strong sense of local pride. Politics in Dover are largely focused on improving the quality of life for its citizens, and many local candidates run for office with that goal in mind. Issues like education reform, public safety initiatives, infrastructure improvements and environmental protection are all important to the residents of Dover. Local politicians focus on creating an open dialogue between citizens and government officials to ensure that everyone’s voice is heard. Residents of Dover take their civic duties seriously, and they always turn out in large numbers for elections to make sure all their voices are represented.
The political climate in Dover, NY is leaning conservative.
Dutchess County, NY is somewhat liberal. In Dutchess County, NY 53.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 44.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Dutchess county remained moderately Democratic, 53.9% to 44.3%.
Dutchess county voted Democratic in the four most recent Presidential elections, after 2000 and 2004 went Republican.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Dover, NY is leaning conservative.
Dutchess County, New York is somewhat liberal.
New York-Newark-Jersey City Metro Area is strongly liberal.
New York is moderately 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.
Dover, New York: 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 Dover, NY
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,177 contributions totaling $206,907 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $176 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 223 contributions totaling $63,039 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $283 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)