Manchester, VT is a small town in Bennington County, Vermont. It has a population of approximately 2,200 people and is a popular tourist destination. Locally, politics are managed by members of the Manchester Select Board. The board oversees many aspects of the town's daily operations including planning, zoning, budgeting and public safety. The select board consists of five elected members who serve three-year terms. The town also has an active Democratic and Republican committees that work on local elections. They strive to ensure that the citizens of Manchester have access to important information about their candidates and issues that matter to them before they go out to vote. This ensures that each person in the area gets their say when it comes to choosing how their community is run.
The political climate in Zip 05254 (Manchester, VT) is somewhat liberal.
Bennington County, VT is strongly liberal. In Bennington County, VT 62.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 34.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 3.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Bennington county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 62.1% to 34.8%.
Bennington county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 05254 (Manchester, VT) is somewhat liberal.
Manchester, Vermont is somewhat liberal.
Bennington County, Vermont is strongly liberal.
Bennington Metro Area is strongly 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.
Manchester, Vermont: 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 05254 (Manchester)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 151 contributions totaling $24,816 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $164 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 18 contributions totaling $2,000 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $111 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)