The small town of Beals, ME (04611) is home to a politically engaged population. The majority of the population identify as either Democrat or Republican and regularly vote in local, state, and national elections. Beals is represented by Representative Chellie Pingree who serves the first district in Congress. At the state level, Senator Marianne Moore represents Beals in the Maine State Senate. In local political races, candidates have included Mike Perkins who ran for Town Council and Edith Pinkham who ran for County Commissioner in 2020. There is a strong sense of community and civic engagement in Beals that is seen through its many active political organizations like the League of Women Voters which works to educate citizens on their voting rights and register voters ahead of each election cycle.
The political climate in Zip 04611 (Beals, ME) is moderately conservative.
Washington County, ME is moderately conservative. In Washington County, ME 39.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 58.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Washington county remained very strongly Republican, 58.7% to 39.0%.
Washington county voted Republican in four of the six previous Presidential elections (2008 and 2012 went Democratic).
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 04611 (Beals, ME) is moderately conservative.
Beals, Maine is moderately conservative.
Washington County, Maine is moderately conservative.
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Maine 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.
Beals, Maine: r r d d 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 zip 04611 (Beals)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 48 contributions totaling $3,384 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $71 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 0 contributions totaling $0 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $0 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)