Ridgefield Park, NJ, located in Bergen County, is a vibrant, diverse town with many active local political leaders. The town is governed by a mayor-council system and the current mayor is George Fosdick. Every two years, residents of Ridgefield Park have an opportunity to elect council members who will work together to develop policies and laws that will benefit the entire community. Recently, there has been much discussion around increasing the public safety budget and introducing initiatives for environmental protection. Local politicians are also working to bring more businesses to town which would provide jobs and help revitalize the downtown area. With its strong spirit of civic engagement and numerous elected officials from both parties serving the community, Ridgefield Park remains an important part of New Jersey's political landscape.
The political climate in Zip 07660 (Ridgefield Park, NJ) is moderately liberal.
Bergen County, NJ is moderately liberal. In Bergen County, NJ 57.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 41.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Bergen county remained very strongly Democratic, 57.4% to 41.1%.
Bergen county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 07660 (Ridgefield Park, NJ) is moderately liberal.
Ridgefield Park, New Jersey is moderately liberal.
Bergen County, New Jersey is moderately 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.
Ridgefield Park, 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 07660 (Ridgefield Park)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,789 contributions totaling $121,371 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $44 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 82 contributions totaling $117,284 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $1,430 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)