The politics in 17363 Stewartstown, PA are heavily impacted by the county it resides in, York County. York County is a strongly Republican area with Republicans holding all but one elected office in 2019. The county is represented by U.S. Representative Scott Perry, R-4th District; Pennsylvania Senator Kristin Phillips-Hill, R-28th District; and Pennsylvania Representative Stan Saylor, R-94th District. While there are no local political candidates based out of Stewartstown, their policies and initiatives have an impact on the residents of the borough. Local efforts to reduce taxes or increase economic opportunities often fall under the purview of these higher level officials as much as they do local government leadership.
The political climate in Zip 17363 (Stewartstown, PA) is moderately conservative.
York County, PA is strongly conservative. In York County, PA 36.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 61.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, York county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 61.4% to 36.8%.
York county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 17363 (Stewartstown, PA) is moderately conservative.
Stewartstown, Pennsylvania is moderately conservative.
York County, Pennsylvania is strongly conservative.
York-Hanover 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.
Stewartstown, Pennsylvania: 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 17363 (Stewartstown)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 139 contributions totaling $4,188 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $30 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 116 contributions totaling $17,595 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $152 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)