New Hyde Park, New York is a village located in Nassau County on Long Island. It is home to many diverse people and cultures, and the politics of the area are reflective of that. The Village Board of Trustees consists of five members who are elected by residents for two-year terms. The Mayor is chosen from among the Trustees with a vote being taken at the annual organizational meeting. The village also elects a Deputy Mayor appointed to assist the Mayor with various duties, as well as other important positions such as Clerk and Treasurer, Police Chief, Building Inspector, and Sanitation Superintendent. Issues that are discussed by local politicians include affordable housing, curbing traffic congestion in the Village’s downtown area, encouraging economic development to increase jobs and businesses in the area, creating better access to parks and recreational facilities for locals, reducing air pollution in the district, improving public transportation options for residents who rely on it to get around town, protecting natural resources from harm or destruction due to land development activities, and preserving historic sites within the village boundaries.
The political climate in New Hyde Park, NY is leaning liberal.
Nassau County, NY is somewhat liberal. In Nassau County, NY 54.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 44.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Nassau county remained moderately Democratic, 54.1% to 44.6%.
Nassau county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
New Hyde Park, NY is leaning liberal.
Nassau 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.
New Hyde Park, New York: 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 New Hyde Park, NY
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 5,642 contributions totaling $511,706 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $91 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 906 contributions totaling $223,418 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $247 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)