Coxsackie, NY is located in Greene County and is a small town with a population of 5,000 people. The town is governed by a five-member Town Board that meets once a month to discuss local legislation. Each Town Board member is elected from one of the four wards within the town. Currently, the Town Board members are Andrew Lipsky, William Smith, Carrie Miller, Judy Nelson and Lawrence Brown. Together they work to make decisions regarding taxes and budgets, development of local businesses, services like garbage collection and snow removal, and other aspects of the town’s infrastructure. They also create laws to maintain public safety in Coxsackie and work with other government agencies to ensure that all citizens have access to basic needs such as housing and transportation services. Every year local elections are held to elect new board members who will represent the interests of their constituents. Local political candidates strive to ensure that the residents have their voices heard on important matters such as job growth, education opportunities and public safety initiatives.
The political climate in Zip 12051 (Coxsackie, NY) is somewhat conservative.
Greene County, NY is somewhat conservative. In Greene County, NY 41.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 56.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Greene county remained very strongly Republican, 56.6% to 41.1%.
Greene county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 12051 (Coxsackie, NY) is somewhat conservative.
Coxsackie, New York is somewhat conservative.
Greene County, New York is somewhat conservative.
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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.
Coxsackie, New York: 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 12051 (Coxsackie)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 162 contributions totaling $19,762 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $122 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 48 contributions totaling $34,895 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $727 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)