Fort Lee, New Jersey is located in Bergen County and is a borough of the state with a population of 36,456. It has a mayor-council form of government and the mayor is Mark Sokolich. The Borough Council consists of six members who are elected by the citizens to represent them in local government affairs. The Council meets bi-monthly to discuss and pass ordinances and resolutions concerning Fort Lee's laws, programs, services, and policies. The Council also works with local businesses to foster growth and development in the community. In addition to the Mayor and Borough Council, Fort Lee has numerous other boards and committees responsible for managing different aspects of the borough's operations such as planning, zoning, public safety, education and recreation. Finally, Fort Lee holds regular elections so that citizens can exercise their right to vote for representatives in local government.
The political climate in Fort Lee, NJ is moderately liberal.
Bergen County, NJ is moderately liberal. In Bergen County, NJ 57.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 41.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Bergen county remained very strongly Democratic, 57.4% to 41.1%.
Bergen county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Fort Lee, NJ is moderately liberal.
Bergen County, New Jersey is moderately liberal.
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.
Fort Lee, New Jersey: 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 Fort Lee, NJ
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 5,583 contributions totaling $974,454 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $175 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 507 contributions totaling $603,040 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $1,189 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)