The town of Ravena, NY is located in Albany County and is part of the 12143 zip code. It is a suburban area with a population of around 6,000 people. Although the town has no local government or elected officials, it does have representation on the state and federal level. On the state level, Ravena is covered by Assemblyman John T. McDonald III who represents Assembly District 108 in the New York State Assembly and Senator Neil Breslin who represents District 44 in the New York State Senate. On the federal level, Ravena is represented by Representative Paul Tonko who serves in Congress for New York's 20th district. Each of these representatives can help Ravena residents with issues concerning taxes, healthcare services, education funds and other concerns they may have about living in the area.
The political climate in Zip 12143 (Ravena, NY) is moderately liberal.
Albany County, NY is strongly liberal. In Albany County, NY 64.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 33.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Albany county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 64.6% to 33.1%.
Albany county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 12143 (Ravena, NY) is moderately liberal.
Ravena, New York is moderately liberal.
Albany County, New York is strongly liberal.
Albany-Schenectady-Troy 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.
Ravena, 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 12143 (Ravena)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 135 contributions totaling $4,993 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $37 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 9 contributions totaling $2,084 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $232 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)