Thornwood, NY is a small town located in Westchester County with a population of just over 10,000 people. It is part of the Mount Pleasant Central School District and its electorate largely votes Democrat in local elections. There have been several notable political figures from Thornwood such as Congressman Nita Lowey who represented New York's 17th congressional district from 1988 to 2021. Currently, George Latimer serves as the county executive for Westchester County and Peter Harckham represents New York’s 40th Senate District. At the state level, Shelley Mayer represents the 90th assembly district that Thornwood belongs to and state Senator Andrea Stewart Cousins represents the 35th district encompassing Thornwood. There are also numerous local political committees that serve as the backbone for Thornwood’s local politics including those associated with the Democratic, Republican, Independence, Conservative and Working Families parties.
The political climate in Zip 10594 (Thornwood, 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 10594 (Thornwood, NY) is moderately liberal.
Thornwood, 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.
Thornwood, 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 10594 (Thornwood)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 161 contributions totaling $22,078 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $137 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 61 contributions totaling $24,255 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $398 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)