Cohoes, NY is a small city located in Albany County. It is a diverse community with an active local politics scene, though its population of just over 16,000 people means it has fewer political candidates than larger cities. The elections for mayor and City Council members are hotly contested each year and draw the attention of residents from all across the city. Candidates come from a variety of backgrounds to represent their vision for the future of Cohoes, and they focus on issues such as economic growth, public safety and infrastructure investments that will benefit the citizens of Cohoes in meaningful ways. There is also strong support for progressive causes like environmental protection and civil rights initiatives that are important to the city's residents. As a result, Cohoes continues to be an engaged community when it comes to civic participation and local politics.
The political climate in Cohoes, NY is moderately liberal.
Albany County, NY is strongly liberal. In Albany County, NY 64.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 33.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Albany county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 64.6% to 33.1%.
Albany county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Cohoes, NY is moderately liberal.
Albany County, New York is strongly liberal.
Albany-Schenectady-Troy Metro Area is somewhat 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.
Cohoes, 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 Cohoes, NY
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 568 contributions totaling $34,765 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $61 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 84 contributions totaling $18,315 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $218 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)