Oneonta, NY is located in Otsego County and is part of New York's 19th Congressional District. The current U.S Representative for this district is Democrat Antonio Delgado. At the state level, the area is part of Senate District 51 and Assembly District 121, both currently represented by Republican Peter Oberacker and Republican Christopher Tague respectively. At the local level, Oneonta is governed by a Mayor-Council system with a five member City Council elected at large. The current Mayor of Oneonta is Gary Herzig who was first elected in 2012. He has since been reelected twice and will continue to serve until 2021. The City Council currently consists of three Republicans: Diana Kastenbaum, Robert Briggs, and William Mihalko; and two Democrats: Mary Harrington-McKinney and Kenneth Lefever.
The political climate in Zip 13820 (Oneonta, NY) is leaning conservative.
Otsego County, NY is leaning conservative. In Otsego County, NY 46.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 51.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Otsego county remained moderately Republican, 51.2% to 46.2%.
Otsego county voted Republican in four of the six previous Presidential elections (2008 and 2012 went Democratic).
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 13820 (Oneonta, NY) is leaning conservative.
Oneonta, New York is leaning conservative.
Otsego County, New York is leaning conservative.
Oneonta 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.
Oneonta, New York: r r 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 13820 (Oneonta)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,278 contributions totaling $50,518 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $40 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 140 contributions totaling $21,155 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $151 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)