The town of Bolton, MA with the area code of 01740 is a rural-suburban community located in Worcester County in the state of Massachusetts. As of 2019, the population was 5,077 people and the median age was 43.7 years old. Bolton has two representatives on the Board of Selectmen that are responsible for governing local affairs such as assigning budgets and setting tax rates. There are also two precincts for local elections which are used to elect town officials including a Town Moderator, Treasurer/Tax Collector, Town Clerk and three members of the Board of Assessors. On the State level, Bolton's citizens vote for their state representative in House District 4 and Senator in Senate District Worcester & Middlesex. Lastly, Bolton voters take part in federal elections to choose their Congressman from Massachusetts’ 7th Congressional District and two US Senators from Massachusetts at large.
The political climate in Zip 01740 (Bolton, MA) is leaning 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 01740 (Bolton, MA) is leaning liberal.
Bolton, Massachusetts is leaning 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.
Bolton, 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 01740 (Bolton)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 3,459 contributions totaling $88,488 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $26 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 71 contributions totaling $20,597 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $290 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)