Hopewell Township is situated in Mercer County, New Jersey and is known for its diverse political landscape. The township is governed by an elected Mayor and a five-member Board of Township Committee. The Mayor and four members of the Board of Township Committee are elected to staggered terms in office every two years. Each year, one member of the Board serves as Deputy Mayor who presides over meetings when the Mayor is absent or indisposed. At present, the Democratic Party holds a majority on the board with four out of five committee members being Democrats. Throughout its history, Hopewell Township has seen various candidates from both major parties running for local offices and other elections are typically very competitive. All citizens have an opportunity to make their voices heard and express their interests during local elections so that the best-qualified representative can be selected for each office.
The political climate in Hopewell township, NJ is somewhat liberal.
Mercer County, NJ is very liberal. In Mercer County, NJ 69.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 29.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Mercer county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 69.1% to 29.1%.
Mercer county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Hopewell township, NJ is somewhat liberal.
Mercer County, New Jersey is very liberal.
Trenton-Princeton Metro Area is very 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.
Hopewell township, 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 Hopewell township, NJ
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 32,979 contributions totaling $7,210,273 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $219 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 2,496 contributions totaling $5,150,279 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $2,063 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)