Girardville, PA is a small town in Schuylkill County with a population of approximately 1,800. It is part of the local government in the county and has its own elected officials. The Mayor of Girardville is currently Joe Brown, who was elected in 2019 to serve another four-year term. The area also elects two representatives to serve on the Town Council, one representing Girardville and one representing Reilly Township. Recently, there have been efforts to increase transparency and collaboration between local residents and their government by allowing for more public input into decision-making processes regarding the town’s budgeting and development initiatives. As such, it is important for local citizens to stay informed on the politics in their community in order to ensure their voices are heard when it comes to how decisions are made that affect their lives.
The political climate in Girardville, PA is moderately conservative.
Schuylkill County, PA is very conservative. In Schuylkill County, PA 29.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 69.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Schuylkill county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 69.1% to 29.3%.
Schuylkill county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Girardville, PA is moderately conservative.
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania is very conservative.
Pottsville Metro Area is very 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.
Girardville, 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 if the Democratic Party candidate won and I if the Independent Party candidate won. 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 Girardville, PA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 22 contributions totaling $1,887 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $86 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 10 contributions totaling $5,705 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $571 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)