The city of Newport News, Virginia in the Hampton Roads area is a diverse and rapidly growing community. It is home to nearly 200,000 people who are actively engaged in local politics. The city is served by elected officials at both the state and local levels. In 2020, three candidates ran for mayor: incumbent Mayor McKinley Price, Councilman David Jenkins, and teacher Dr. Shelly Simonds. The election saw Price win with almost 56% of the vote. At the state level, Newport News is represented in the House of Delegates by Marcia Price and in the Senate by Mamie Locke. Both are Democrats who have been heavily involved in advocating for their constituents’ issues on both local and statewide fronts over their terms. The city is also served by nine members on its city council which make major decisions for the community such as approving budgets and zoning changes. All nine members are elected at-large from across the city by voters within each of five districts.
The political climate in Newport News City County, VA is very liberal.
In Newport News City County, VA 65.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 32.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Newport News city county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 65.4% to 32.5%.
Newport News city county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Newport News City County, VA is very liberal.
Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News Metro Area is moderately liberal.
Virginia 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.
Newport News City, Virginia: 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 for the Democrat and I for the Independent. 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 Newport News City County, VA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 5,346 contributions totaling $641,099 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $120 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,103 contributions totaling $215,094 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $195 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)