The city of Newport News, VA is the fifth-largest city in Virginia and home to a diverse population of more than 180,000 people. It is represented in the US House of Representatives by Congresswoman Elaine Luria and Congressman Bobby Scott. On the state level, the city is represented by Senator Mamie Locke and Delegates Cia Price, Marcia Price, and Mike Mullin in the Virginia General Assembly. In terms of local governance, Newport News has a Mayor-Council form of government with seven members on City Council representing five districts within the city. The current Mayor is McKinley L. Price and he will be up for re-election in 2021. Overall, Newport News strives to engage its citizens to ensure effective governmental services are provided throughout the community and works hard to keep it a safe place for all who call it home.
The political climate in Zip 23605 (Newport News, VA) is strongly liberal.
Newport News City County, VA is very liberal. In Newport News City County, VA 65.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 32.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Newport News city county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 65.4% to 32.5%.
Newport News city county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 23605 (Newport News, VA) is strongly liberal.
Newport News, Virginia is strongly liberal.
Newport News City County, Virginia is very liberal.
Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News Metro Area is moderately liberal.
Virginia is somewhat 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.
Newport News, Virginia: 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 23605 (Newport News)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 289 contributions totaling $13,311 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $46 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 21 contributions totaling $3,333 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $159 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)