Plymouth, New Hampshire is a small town located in the beautiful White Mountains region. It has a population of around 4,000 and is largely rural with large areas of natural beauty. Politically, Plymouth is a traditionally Republican-leaning town with most elections tending to favor GOP candidates. However, the political landscape is changing and the Democratic Party has seen an increasing level of support in recent years. In 2020 this was particularly evident when the Democratic candidate for governor won comfortably in Plymouth despite Republican strongholds elsewhere in the state. This trend appears likely to continue into the future as younger voters tend to lean strongly towards progressive ideals. With local elections coming up soon, it will be interesting to watch which direction politics in Plymouth take over the next few years.
The political climate in Zip 03264 (Plymouth, NH) is moderately liberal.
Grafton County, NH is strongly liberal. In Grafton County, NH 61.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 36.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Grafton county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 61.3% to 36.8%.
Grafton county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 03264 (Plymouth, NH) is moderately liberal.
Plymouth, New Hampshire is moderately liberal.
Grafton County, New Hampshire is strongly liberal.
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New Hampshire is leaning 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.
Plymouth, New Hampshire: 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 03264 (Plymouth)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,656 contributions totaling $80,058 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $48 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 56 contributions totaling $11,117 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $199 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)