The 01504 Blackstone, MA area is part of the larger Worcester County, whose politics are largely dominated by Democratic candidates. In recent years, local political races have been won by Democratic candidates such as James O'Day and Michael Moore for the 14th district of Massachusetts, and Anne Gobi for the State Senate. Additionally, although nationally Democrats currently hold a majority in Congress, locally Republican candidate Richard Tisei has held his seat in the Sixth Congressional District since 2011. In addition to these national level elections, there are also many local offices up for election including county sheriffs and superintendents of schools. This ensured that citizens of the 01504 Blackstone area have an active role in their government.
The political climate in Zip 01504 (Blackstone, MA) is somewhat liberal.
Worcester County, MA is moderately liberal. In Worcester County, MA 57.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 39.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Worcester county remained very strongly Democratic, 57.6% to 39.7%.
Worcester county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 01504 (Blackstone, MA) is somewhat liberal.
Blackstone, Massachusetts is somewhat liberal.
Worcester County, Massachusetts is moderately liberal.
Worcester Metro Area is somewhat liberal.
Massachusetts is very 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.
Blackstone, Massachusetts: 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 01504 (Blackstone)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 88 contributions totaling $1,617 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $18 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 23 contributions totaling $3,343 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $145 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)