The town of 11948 Laurel, NY is located in the Catskills region of New York and is a small rural town. Its government is led by a mayor and several board members who are elected every two years. The board works to create policies that ensure the town’s success, which includes maintaining roads, water supplies, public safety and other infrastructure needs. They also work to attract tourism from outside the area to help support local businesses. Issues that have been discussed recently include creating more parks and recreational areas for residents, improving the quality of education available within the district and addressing ongoing concerns with animal cruelty regulations. There is an active political presence in town that engages in debates on issues affecting its citizens. Each election brings out many candidates who want to represent the interests of their constituents, and there are often passionate discussions about how each potential leader’s views would affect the future of 11948 Laurel, NY.
The political climate in Zip 11948 (Laurel, NY) is leaning conservative.
Suffolk County, NY is leaning liberal. In Suffolk County, NY 49.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 49.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Suffolk county remained narrowly Republican, 49.3% to 49.3%.
Suffolk county voted Republican in the two most recent Presidential elections, after voting Democratic in the previous four.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 11948 (Laurel, NY) is leaning conservative.
Laurel, New York is leaning conservative.
Suffolk County, New York is leaning liberal.
New York-Newark-Jersey City Metro Area is strongly liberal.
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.
Laurel, New York: D d d d 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 11948 (Laurel)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 54 contributions totaling $5,680 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $105 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 19 contributions totaling $3,920 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $206 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)