The New Castle, PA Metro Area is home to an active political landscape. Several candidates campaign for local offices each year, offering the community various platforms and ideas on how to best improve their quality of life. Despite its small size, the area is home to a diverse range of views and beliefs when it comes to political issues. Local elections attract a wide array of candidates that represent both liberal and conservative perspectives. The process is open to all citizens who are registered to vote in the area, providing them with an opportunity to get involved in the political cycle of their city or town. By getting informed about local politics, citizens can become more aware of what effects important decisions have on their community and actively participate in making those decisions happen.
The political climate in New Castle Metro Area is strongly conservative.
In New Castle Metro Area 34.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 64.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, the New Castle metro area remained overwhelmingly Republican, 64.1% to 34.6%.
The New Castle metro area voted Republican in the last five Presidential elections, after voting Democratic in 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
New Castle Metro Area is strongly conservative.
Pennsylvania is leaning 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.
New Castle, Pennsylvania: d 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 four elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in New Castle Metro Area
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,328 contributions totaling $103,302 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $78 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 795 contributions totaling $337,650 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $425 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)