Wallingford, Connecticut is a small town located in New Haven County. It has an estimated population of over 44,000 residents and covers an area of approximately 33 square miles. The town is led by a mayor-council form of government with the mayor being the head of government for Wallingford. The current Mayor is William W. Dickinson Jr., who was elected to his fourth consecutive term in 2019. There are several other local political candidates running for various roles on the Wallingford Town Council and Board of Education as well as for other town offices such as Registrar of Voters, Tax Collector, and Treasurer. Elections are held regularly in Wallingford to fill positions within the local government, usually every two years on the second Tuesday in November.
The political climate in Zip 06492 (Wallingford, CT) is somewhat liberal.
New Haven County, CT is moderately liberal. In New Haven County, CT 58.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 40.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, New Haven county remained very strongly Democratic, 58.0% to 40.6%.
New Haven county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 06492 (Wallingford, CT) is somewhat liberal.
Wallingford, Connecticut is somewhat liberal.
New Haven County, Connecticut is moderately liberal.
New Haven-Milford Metro Area is moderately liberal.
Connecticut 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.
Wallingford, Connecticut: 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 06492 (Wallingford)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,753 contributions totaling $264,473 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $151 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 276 contributions totaling $59,326 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $215 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)