New Castle County is located in Delaware and is a major population hub. Politically, the county is a Democratic stronghold. It has been represented by Democrats in Congress since the late 1970s and has only had Democratic Governors since 1981. On the county level, the Executive is a Democrat and the New Castle County Council consists of seven members of which six are Democrats. There are also many active local parties, such as the Green Party, Libertarian Party, and Independent Party of Delaware that participate in local elections. The residents of New Castle County benefit from having access to officials who represent their interests and act as stewards for their community’s political future.
The political climate in New Castle County, DE is very liberal.
In New Castle County, DE 67.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 30.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, New Castle county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 67.8% to 30.7%.
New Castle county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
New Castle County, DE is very liberal.
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington Metro Area is strongly liberal.
Delaware 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.
New Castle, Delaware: 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 New Castle County, DE
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 35,032 contributions totaling $6,079,318 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $174 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 4,780 contributions totaling $3,587,296 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $750 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)