Wallington, NJ is an active and engaged community when it comes to politics. The town has elected officials on all levels of government, from local council members to representatives in the state capitol. Council members are regularly elected by the citizens of Wallington to ensure that the town's best interests are represented in their governing body. Additionally, Wallington's residents have a long history of voting in municipal and state elections, with a high voter turnout in recent years. The local political scene also sees passionate debates around issues such as taxation, infrastructure development, education funding and more. Residents always have an opinion about how their community should be run and are eager to make their voices heard at the ballot box.
The political climate in Wallington, 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
Wallington, 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.
Wallington, 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 Wallington, NJ
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 318 contributions totaling $19,464 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $61 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 15 contributions totaling $4,395 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $293 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)