Leicester, NY is located in the heart of the Finger Lakes Region and is part of the Town of Leicester in Livingston County. It is a small rural community that has a population of around 2,400 people as of 2020. Politics in Leicester are best described as conservative with Republican candidates dominating local elections. The town supervisor has been held by a Republican candidate for over fifteen years and all other local government posts have been held by members of the Republican Party since the 1980s. In 2020, the incumbent supervisor was re-elected to another four-year term. While political ideologies vary throughout the area, Leicester continues to remain heavily conservative with an emphasis on fiscal responsibility and limited government involvement.
The political climate in Zip 14481 (Leicester, NY) is moderately conservative.
Livingston County, NY is moderately conservative. In Livingston County, NY 39.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 57.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Livingston county remained very strongly Republican, 57.9% to 39.7%.
Livingston county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 14481 (Leicester, NY) is moderately conservative.
Leicester, New York is moderately conservative.
Livingston County, New York is moderately conservative.
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.
Leicester, New York: R R r R 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 14481 (Leicester)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 135 contributions totaling $3,332 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $25 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 17 contributions totaling $2,440 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $144 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)