Rye, NY is a small city located in Westchester County with a population of approximately 16,000 people. The local politics are handled by the Rye City Council and the Mayor of Rye. The City Council is comprised of seven members who are elected to serve four year terms and are responsible for setting budgets, enacting laws, and approving appointments. The current Mayor of Rye is Josh Cohn who was elected in 2019 and is responsible for representing the city's interests, developing policies, and appointing department heads. In addition to the mayor and City Council there are many other local politicians that represent Rye in various capacities in state and federal government such as New York State Senators Shelley Mayer and Pete Harckham as well as United States Congressman Eliot Engel. All these politicians work together to ensure that 10580 Rye has effective representation at all levels of government.
The political climate in Zip 10580 (Rye, NY) is moderately liberal.
Westchester County, NY is very liberal. In Westchester County, NY 67.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 31.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Westchester county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 67.6% to 31.3%.
Westchester county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 10580 (Rye, NY) is moderately liberal.
Rye, New York is moderately liberal.
Westchester County, New York is very liberal.
New York-Newark-Jersey City Metro Area is strongly liberal.
New York 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.
Rye, New York: 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 zip 10580 (Rye)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 8,653 contributions totaling $4,475,411 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $517 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,288 contributions totaling $1,372,275 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $1,065 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)