These bar graphs show how, over the past six years, independent and Republican voters grew by relatively large margins across The Enterprise coverage area while nearly every town saw its number of Democratic voters shrink.

Republicans got their biggest boosts in the rural Hilltowns, and grew on par with Democrats in New Scotland. The Conservative party saw moderate growth while the Working Families Party — consistently the smallest across the towns — saw enormous growth, though much of it can be attributed to its small size and is unlikely to have any impact on elections.

To see a breakdown of party enrollment, and its shifts, in each town — Berne, Bethlehem, Guilderland, Knox, New Scotland, Rensselaerville, and Westerlo — scroll down.

Berne: With a total active voter count of around 2,300, Berne saw the greatest increase in right-leaning party enrollments and greatest decline in Democratic enrollment. Although striking in relative terms, the five-fold increase in Working Families enrollment is largely due to how small the party was to begin with, going from just six voters to 39. 

Bethlehem: With nearly 28,000 active voters, Bethlehem did not see many radical changes, though it is the only town in The Enterprise coverage area where Republican enrollment declined. Independent voters grew most rapidly, outpacing the total voter growth by around 16 points, surpassed only by the Working Families Party which, as in all the other towns, had very small numbers to begin with.

Guilderland: Like Bethlehem, Guilderland, with around 26,500 active voters, saw its independent voters grow the most. Otherwise, only Democrats and the Working Families Party saw growth beyond what would be expected by population increases.

Knox: Of the Hilltowns, Knox, with 2,091 active voters, saw the most limited increase in right-leaning voter enrollment, but only because it had fewer Democrats to lose than than its rural neighbors, and had the slowest growth in new voters overall. Besides Berne, it also had the greatest increase in Conservative enrollment. 

New Scotland: The smallest of the suburbs, New Scotland, with around 7,500 active voters, saw most of its growth in independent voters, while Democrats and Republicans both shrunk by the same proportion, failing to surpass the growth in total number of voters. 

Rensselaerville: Rensselaerville, with the smallest number of total voters at around 1,500, is the only Hilltown that did not see an absolute loss in number of Democratic voters, though their share of the voter pool did shrink. Their growth in Republican voters is second only to Berne. They did, however, have the fastest growth of independent voters across all towns in The Enterprise coverage area.

Westerlo: The largest Hilltown in terms of total voters, with around 2,500, Westerlo cuts down the middle of the road, following the same trends as the other towns but setting the record for none of them — except slowest growth of Working Families party voters, at just 27 percent.