The politics in 01950 Newburyport, MA are an important part of the city's culture and identity. The city is represented at the state level by State Senator Kathleen O'Connor Ives and State Representatives James Kelcourse and Lori Ehrlich. At the federal level, Newburyport is represented by U.S. Congressman Seth Moulton and U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Edward Markey. As a progressive-leaning community, there are active political organizations such as Indivisible Newburyport that promote voting rights, support issues related to climate change, equal rights, health care accessibility, and civil liberties for all citizens of Newburyport. Additionally, many local elections are held at the municipal level where residents can elect representatives to serve on the City Council and School Committee. All of these governments work together to ensure that Newburyport remains a vibrant city with resources available to everyone living here.
The political climate in Zip 01950 (Newburyport, MA) is moderately liberal.
Essex County, MA is strongly liberal. In Essex County, MA 63.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 34.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Essex county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 63.4% to 34.4%.
Essex county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 01950 (Newburyport, MA) is moderately liberal.
Newburyport, Massachusetts is moderately liberal.
Essex County, Massachusetts is strongly liberal.
Boston-Cambridge-Newton Metro Area is very 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.
Newburyport, 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 01950 (Newburyport)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 3,204 contributions totaling $289,469 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $90 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 248 contributions totaling $46,965 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $189 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)