Hunterdon County, New Jersey is a vibrant community that plays an active role in local politics. The county is represented at the local level by three Freeholders, elected to serve staggered three-year terms. Additionally, the county is served by several other elected offices such as Mayor and City Council Members in each of its constituent municipalities. The county also provides both state and federal representation to its residents via State Senators and Assembly Members who represent the county in Trenton and Congressmen who serve Hunterdon within the US House of Representatives. As part of their duties, each elected official serves as a voice for their individual constituents and works together to ensure that all residents are provided with adequate services from their government.
The political climate in Hunterdon County, NJ is leaning conservative.
In Hunterdon County, NJ 46.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 51.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Hunterdon county remained Republican, 51.0% to 46.6%.
Hunterdon county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Hunterdon County, NJ is leaning conservative.
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.
Hunterdon, New Jersey: R R R R R r
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 Hunterdon County, NJ
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 14,896 contributions totaling $1,642,873 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $110 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 3,142 contributions totaling $2,909,902 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $926 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)