NamePolitics

Kimberley

sits left of most names

liberaltypical nameconservative
Score
−0.43
More liberal than
76% of names
Measured from
919 contributors
more liberalevery scored namemore conservative

That ranking compares Kimberley with other names. The typical name scores −0.22, because people who donate to campaigns lean left as a group, so a name can sit left of zero and still be middle of the pack. The party splits below use a different yardstick again: each one is measured against an even fifty-fifty.

DIME contributor ideal points, 1979-2014. Negative is liberal, positive conservative.

How does Kimberley compare with someone else's name?

Party, by population

Different groups of people, measured in different ways. They do not always agree, and the disagreement is usually the interesting part.

Campaign donors, nationwide895 people
61% Democratic39% Republican

Federal contributions, 2016 to 2026. Donors skew older and wealthier than the country.

Registered voters, North Carolina682 people
43% Democratic57% Republican

Actual party registration, which is a choice people make at the DMV rather than with a chequebook.

Registered voters, Florida1,665 people
43% Democratic57% Republican

Party registration again, in a state with a very different mix of people. Florida and North Carolina agree on which way a name leans 88% of the time.

Primary voters, Ohio404 people
46% Democratic54% Republican

Ohio has no party registration, so this is the last primary ballot each voter chose to pull.

Worth noticing: donors named Kimberley lean Democratic while registered voters named Kimberley lean Republican. This happens for about a quarter of names, and it is why this page refuses to give you a single number.

Is it the name, or the people who have it?

Names carry age, sex and ethnicity, and those predict politics on their own. Comparing every Kimberley in North Carolina against other registrants of the same age, sex and race leaves −0.13 that the demographics do not explain. For this name, almost nothing survives: the name is standing in for who happens to carry it.

Related spellings

  • Kim
    liberalconservative
  • Kimberly
    liberalconservative
  • Kym
    liberalconservative

Where Kimberley leans differently

StateDemocratic share of donorsAgainst that state’s own donors
CA72%+0.31
TX46%+0.35
FL47%+0.35
NY77%+0.29
VA48%−0.26
WA75%+0.48
CO74%+0.73
IL82%+1.05

The right column compares Kimberley with other donors in the same state, so it is not just telling you which states are Democratic.

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