Rochester, New Hampshire is a small town located in Strafford County with a population of approximately 30,000 people. Politically, Rochester is considered a swing town that leans slightly towards the Democratic side. At the local level, voters in Rochester tend to elect Democrats to serve on the City Council and School Board. The current Mayor of Rochester is Caroline McCarley, who was elected in 2019. In addition to Mayor McCarley, several other local politicians from both major parties have held office in recent years. These include State Representatives Bob Backus and Lisa Freeman, both Democrats; State Senator David Watters, a Democrat; and County Commissioner Michael Pieciak, a Republican. All of these representatives work hard to ensure that everyone in Rochester has their voices heard and their needs met when it comes to civic matters.
The political climate in Zip 03867 (Rochester, NH) is somewhat liberal.
Strafford County, NH is somewhat liberal. In Strafford County, NH 56.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 41.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Strafford county remained very strongly Democratic, 56.5% to 41.3%.
Strafford county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 03867 (Rochester, NH) is somewhat liberal.
Rochester, New Hampshire is somewhat liberal.
Strafford County, New Hampshire is somewhat liberal.
Boston-Cambridge-Newton Metro Area is very liberal.
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.
Rochester, 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 03867 (Rochester)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 474 contributions totaling $25,498 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $54 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 169 contributions totaling $29,069 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $172 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)