Score
Liberal Politics
Higher Democratic two-party presidential vote share in the matched county scores higher.
Higher values rank better for this score.
How It's Calculated
The latest published score is normalized to a 0-100 scale. The method below explains what the score rewards, with technical source metadata available for audit.
How the ranking is built
Liberal Politics is based on two-party presidential vote returns for the county matched to the place.
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100 * Democratic votes / (Democratic votes + Republican votes)
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The score is direct on a 0-100 scale from county two-party vote share or two-party margin.
Technical details
Read from the current master score table for this criterion.
The top 10 below ignore your blended relocation weights and sort only by Liberal Politics.
What This Score Means
Liberal Politics is based on two-party presidential vote returns for the county matched to the place.
Statistics Feeding This Score
- County matchSource: County presidential election returns
County FIPS, county name, match method, and match confidence for the place representative point.
- Democratic and Republican votesSource: County presidential election returns
County presidential vote counts for the two major parties.
- Democratic two-party vote shareSource: Derived from county vote returns
Derived from Democratic and Republican two-party vote share and margin.
Source Data
Known Limits
- Politics scores describe the surrounding county, not necessarily the exact municipality or neighborhood.
- Places spanning multiple counties are assigned by representative point.
- Precinct-level returns could improve local precision later.
Top 10 Locations
Ranked by Liberal Politics.