Hoosick Falls, NY is a small town with a population of just over 3,000 people located in Eastern Rensselaer County. The politics in Hoosick Falls are dominated by the Republicans who have held local office for many years. Despite their long-term success, the Democrats have made some recent gains in local elections, especially with the election of current Town Supervisor Robert Allen and Councilman Christopher Mancini in 2019. Since then, town leaders have worked to bring greater transparency to governance and foster economic growth and development. Hoosick Falls citizens will continue to monitor candidates for local office as they make decisions that will affect the future of this small community.
The political climate in Zip 12090 (Hoosick Falls, NY) is leaning liberal.
Rensselaer County, NY is leaning liberal. In Rensselaer County, NY 51.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 46.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Rensselaer county flipped moderately Democratic, 51.6% to 46.0%.
Rensselaer county flipped back to Democratic in the most recent Presidential election, after voting Republican in 2016.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 12090 (Hoosick Falls, NY) is leaning liberal.
Hoosick Falls, New York is leaning liberal.
Rensselaer County, New York is leaning liberal.
Albany-Schenectady-Troy Metro Area is somewhat liberal.
New York is moderately 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.
Hoosick Falls, New York: d d d D r 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 12090 (Hoosick Falls)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 135 contributions totaling $19,226 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $142 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 40 contributions totaling $3,475 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $87 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)