Woodbury Heights, NJ is a small borough located in Gloucester County. The town has an active political scene with two separate governing bodies: the Mayor and Council and the Woodbury Heights Board of Education. Within these bodies are various positions that local residents may run for to help shape the future of the borough. During election season, local candidates can be found knocking doors, speaking at forums, or attending community meetings in order to gain support from their constituents. Issues discussed by these candidates range from taxes and infrastructure to public safety and education reform. No matter the issue, it is clear that local politics plays an important role in shaping Woodbury Heights' future.
The political climate in Zip 08097 (Woodbury Heights, NJ) is leaning conservative.
Gloucester County, NJ is leaning liberal. In Gloucester County, NJ 50.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 48.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Gloucester county flipped narrowly Democratic, 50.0% to 48.0%.
Gloucester county flipped back to Democratic in the most recent Presidential election, after voting Republican in 2016.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 08097 (Woodbury Heights, NJ) is leaning conservative.
Woodbury Heights, New Jersey is leaning conservative.
Gloucester County, New Jersey is leaning liberal.
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington 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.
Woodbury Heights, New Jersey: D d D D 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 08097 (Woodbury Heights)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 45 contributions totaling $1,943 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $43 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 9 contributions totaling $862 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $96 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)