Pearl River, NY is a small community located in Rockland County. It is a unique village with a strong sense of community pride and involvement in local politics. The political landscape in Pearl River consists of the town board, school board, and village government. Town board members are responsible for approving the budget, zoning ordinances, and other important matters that affect the town’s residents. The school board works to ensure the quality of education within the district while also setting policies to guide student achievement. Meanwhile, village government looks after the maintenance and upkeep of local roads, parks, and other public infrastructure. In addition to all these responsibilities, locals also have an opportunity to voice their opinions on important issues at regular public forums held by various boards in the community and may even run for office themselves or vote for others who do so. Pearl River residents take pride in their involvement in local politics as they keep an eye on how decisions made by these local leaders will affect life in their community now and in years to come.
The political climate in Pearl River, NY is leaning conservative.
Rockland County, NY is leaning liberal. In Rockland County, NY 50.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 48.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Rockland county remained narrowly Democratic, 50.3% to 48.6%.
Rockland county voted Democratic in five of the last six Presidential elections (2004 went Republican).
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Pearl River, NY is leaning conservative.
Rockland County, New York is leaning 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.
Pearl River, New York: D 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 Pearl River, NY
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 3,830 contributions totaling $407,312 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $106 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 539 contributions totaling $103,858 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $193 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)