The city of Binghamton, NY is a vibrant and diverse community. Located in the Southern Tier region of New York State, it is home to a variety of cultural and historic sites. It is also an important political center, hosting several major elected offices in the area. Binghamton has two Representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives, Anthony Brindisi and Claudia Tenney; one Senator in the New York Senate, Fred Akshar; and one Assemblyman in the New York State Assembly, Clifford Crouch. In addition to these representatives, Binghamton also elects members for its local government who are responsible for various aspects of life within the city limits, such as public safety and infrastructure improvements. These representatives play an important role in maintaining continuity between local concerns and state or national level lawmakers. The citizens of Binghamton have considerable influence on policy decisions made at all levels of government due to their active engagement with their elected officials.
The political climate in Zip 13903 (Binghamton, NY) is leaning liberal.
Broome County, NY is leaning liberal. In Broome County, NY 50.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 47.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Broome county flipped Democratic, 50.5% to 47.1%.
Broome county flipped back to Democratic in the most recent Presidential election, after voting Republican in 2016.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 13903 (Binghamton, NY) is leaning liberal.
Binghamton, New York is leaning liberal.
Broome County, New York is leaning liberal.
Binghamton Metro Area is leaning conservative.
New York is moderately 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.
Binghamton, New York: 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 13903 (Binghamton)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 864 contributions totaling $174,416 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $202 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 249 contributions totaling $57,563 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $231 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)