The Upper West Side of New York City is located in the 10025 zip code and has a unique political landscape. This area is home to many of the city's most powerful people, including celebrities, politicians and business owners. It is also a vibrant and multicultural neighborhood with an active and engaged voting population. The political climate here is both competitive and diverse, with candidates from both major parties vying for votes year-round. In recent years, local politicians have focused on issues such as affordable housing, education reform, public transportation and improving safety in the neighborhood. With its strong sense of community pride and commitment to progressive values, the Upper West Side of New York City offers an exciting glimpse into urban politics in America.
The political climate in Zip 10025 (Upper West Side, NY) is very liberal.
New York County, NY is very liberal. In New York County, NY 86.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 12.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, New York (Manhattan) county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 86.4% to 12.2%.
New York (Manhattan) county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 10025 (Upper West Side, NY) is very liberal.
Upper West Side, New York is very liberal.
New York 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.
Upper West Side, 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 10025 (Upper West Side)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 82,674 contributions totaling $14,555,071 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $176 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,775 contributions totaling $624,053 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $352 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)