The town of Northborough, MA, is politically moderate in terms of representation. The area is represented at the state level by Senator Dean Tran and Representative Danielle Gregoire. At the federal level, Northborough is represented primarily by Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative James P. McGovern. Local politics focus largely on issues such as transportation, infrastructure improvements, and public safety. A number of local initiatives have been proposed to address a variety of other topics such as education reform, economic development, and maintaining a vibrant arts and culture scene. Overall, these proposals serve to build upon the community’s existing strengths while improving upon areas that could use improvement for the benefit of local citizens. Despite its moderate political leanings, Northborough remains an attractive place to live due to its close proximity to Boston and Worcester and its many parks and recreational facilities.
The political climate in Zip 01532 (Northborough, 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 01532 (Northborough, MA) is leaning liberal.
Northborough, 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.
Northborough, 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 01532 (Northborough)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,119 contributions totaling $159,788 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $143 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 100 contributions totaling $84,006 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $840 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)