Politics in 02667 Wellfleet, MA is a topic of importance for local residents. The town of Wellfleet is served by the Board of Selectmen and the Town Meeting which acts as a legislative body for the town. As part of their duties, the Board of Selectmen are responsible for setting policy and managing the budget, while Town Meeting has the power to make laws, approve budgets, and determine how taxes and other revenue will be used. Elections are held every two years for several positions on both boards. Additionally, local elections are held for school committees and other important town offices. In order to ensure that residents have input into decisions that affect them directly, there are also special town meetings at which citizens can vote directly on issues affecting their community. Local candidates run for office each election cycle to represent their constituents’ interests in these various roles.
The political climate in Zip 02667 (Wellfleet, MA) is somewhat liberal.
Barnstable County, MA is strongly liberal. In Barnstable County, MA 61.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 36.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Barnstable county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 61.2% to 36.8%.
Barnstable county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 02667 (Wellfleet, MA) is somewhat liberal.
Wellfleet, Massachusetts is somewhat liberal.
Barnstable County, Massachusetts is strongly liberal.
Barnstable Town Metro Area is strongly 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.
Wellfleet, 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 02667 (Wellfleet)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,739 contributions totaling $117,168 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $67 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 22 contributions totaling $9,606 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $437 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)