Toms River, NJ 08755 is a suburban community located in Ocean County, New Jersey. The local government of Toms River is composed of a five-member Township Council that operates under the Faulkner Act (Mayor-Council) system. Each council member serves a four year term and all are elected at-large. The current Mayor of Toms River is Maurice B. \"Mo\" Hill, Jr., who was elected on June 8th, 2018 for a four year term. The Township Council consists of President George E. Wittmann, Jr., Vice President Daniel Rodrick, and members Laurie Huryk, Terrance Turnbach and Matthew Lotano. The Township Council works together to manage the day-to-day operations of the township such as budgeting, policy creation and implementation, as well as overseeing contracts with vendors and services providers. Local politics in Toms River have been focused on issues such as infrastructure improvements, economic development initiatives, environmental protection measures and educational funding reform.
The political climate in Zip 08755 (Toms River, NJ) is moderately conservative.
Ocean County, NJ is strongly conservative. In Ocean County, NJ 34.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 63.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Ocean county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 63.5% to 34.9%.
Ocean county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 08755 (Toms River, NJ) is moderately conservative.
Toms River, New Jersey is moderately conservative.
Ocean County, New Jersey is strongly conservative.
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.
Toms River, New Jersey: r R R R R R
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 08755 (Toms River)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 549 contributions totaling $57,117 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $104 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 238 contributions totaling $76,959 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $323 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)