Rochester, NY is a city with a rich political history. Located in Monroe County, it is home to 136,000 people and the county seat of government. The City of Rochester is governed by an elected Mayor and City Council serving four-year terms. The current mayor is Lovely Warren, who was first elected in 2013 and re-elected in 2017. There are also nine councilmembers representing each of the nine city wards. In addition to the local politics, Monroe County also has its own government structure consisting of an appointed County Executive and Legislature whose members are elected from single-member districts within the county. This system provides citizens with representation from their community as well as local control over decision making processes that affect their daily lives.
The political climate in Zip 14613 (Rochester, NY) is moderately liberal.
Monroe County, NY is moderately liberal. In Monroe County, NY 59.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 38.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Monroe county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 59.3% to 38.2%.
Monroe county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 14613 (Rochester, NY) is moderately liberal.
Rochester, New York is moderately liberal.
Monroe County, New York is moderately liberal.
Rochester Metro Area is somewhat 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.
Rochester, New York: d d D D D 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 14613 (Rochester)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 150 contributions totaling $13,296 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $89 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 10 contributions totaling $1,780 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $178 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)