The Vineland-Bridgeton, NJ Metro Area is a bustling region with a long history of political engagement. As the most populous metropolitan area in New Jersey, the Vineland-Bridgeton region has been home to several important leaders in state and national politics. Local politicians in the area have served in both the state legislature and on various boards and commissions throughout their tenure. Various local candidates have run for both state assembly and senate seats as well as gubernatorial races. These candidates have included Democrats, Republicans, Independents, and members of other parties. They all ran to represent their constituents' best interests and to ensure that the needs of local citizens were met. In recent years, the politics in this region have become more contentious with heated debates over social issues such as same sex marriage equality, immigration reform, gun rights, taxes, education reform, health care reform, and other topics of importance to residents of this Metro Area.
The political climate in Vineland-Bridgeton Metro Area is leaning liberal.
In Vineland-Bridgeton Metro Area 52.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 46.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, the Vineland-Bridgeton metro area remained moderately Democratic, 52.3% to 46.3%.
The Vineland-Bridgeton metro area voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Vineland-Bridgeton Metro Area is leaning 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.
Vineland-Bridgeton, 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 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 four elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in Vineland-Bridgeton Metro Area
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,617 contributions totaling $264,575 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $101 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 717 contributions totaling $150,653 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $210 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)