Millington, NJ is a small community located in Morris County with a population of about 2,000 people. The town has a mayor-council form of government, where the mayor and six council members are directly elected by the citizens. The mayor serves as the chief executive officer while the council members oversee various aspects of local government, including finance, public works, and recreation. In recent years, there have been heated debates regarding taxes, development projects, and other issues that affect the local community. Local elections are often hotly contested as residents have strong opinions on how their town should be governed. In fact, many political candidates from around Morris County come to Millington to make their case for why they should be elected into office. As an engaged community, Millington is committed to having open conversations about politics to ensure that everyone’s voice is heard.
The political climate in Zip 07946 (Millington, NJ) is leaning conservative.
Morris County, NJ is leaning liberal. In Morris County, NJ 51.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 46.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Morris county flipped Democratic, 51.1% to 46.9%.
Morris county flipped Democratic after voting Republican in the previous five Presidential elections.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 07946 (Millington, NJ) is leaning conservative.
Millington, New Jersey is leaning conservative.
Morris County, New Jersey is leaning liberal.
New York-Newark-Jersey City Metro Area is strongly liberal.
New Jersey is somewhat 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.
Millington, New Jersey: R R r R 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 07946 (Millington)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 243 contributions totaling $17,914 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $74 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 33 contributions totaling $6,471 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $196 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)