New Providence, NJ 07974 is a small town located in Union County with a population of about 12,000 people. It is governed by a mayor and six-member Town Council who are elected to three year terms. Local politics in New Providence focus on issues related to education, budgeting, public safety and infrastructure. The current mayor is Al Morgan and the Town Council members are Michael Gennaro, Robert Robinson, Lisa Adubato-Miller, David Cohen, Ana Marie Minkoff and Randall Jost. Together they strive to work for the betterment of the community in New Providence by ensuring fiscal responsibility, prioritizing public safety initiatives and working toward improvement of existing infrastructure.
The political climate in Zip 07974 (New Providence, NJ) is moderately liberal.
Union County, NJ is very liberal. In Union County, NJ 67.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 31.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Union county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 67.0% to 31.5%.
Union county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 07974 (New Providence, NJ) is moderately liberal.
New Providence, New Jersey is moderately liberal.
Union County, New Jersey is very 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.
New Providence, New Jersey: 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 07974 (New Providence)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,356 contributions totaling $272,104 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $201 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 206 contributions totaling $245,391 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $1,191 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)