Wilbraham, MA 01095 is located in Hampden County and is a town of about 14,000 people. It is part of the 8th district in Massachusetts and is represented by Representative Aaron Vega in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Wilbraham has a long history of local politics with the town's Board of Selectman consisting of three elected officials and various committees such as the Planning Board and Finance Committee, who work together to make decisions that will benefit the community. The town also holds general elections every two years for local offices including Town Meeting Member, Moderator, Town Clerk, Assessors and Trustees of Public Funds. Residents have a say in how their town operates by voting for their representatives and attending Town Meeting to discuss important issues.
The political climate in Zip 01095 (Wilbraham, MA) is leaning liberal.
Hampden County, MA is moderately liberal. In Hampden County, MA 57.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 40.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Hampden county remained very strongly Democratic, 57.7% to 40.0%.
Hampden county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 01095 (Wilbraham, MA) is leaning liberal.
Wilbraham, Massachusetts is leaning liberal.
Hampden County, Massachusetts is moderately liberal.
Springfield 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.
Wilbraham, 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 01095 (Wilbraham)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,069 contributions totaling $75,821 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $71 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 121 contributions totaling $21,428 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $177 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)