Harrison City, PA is a small town with a population of approximately 4,000 people. It is governed by a mayor and eight council members who are elected by the residents to manage the city. The political climate in Harrison City is friendly and welcoming to all citizens. Issues that are discussed often include creating more economic opportunity, improving public safety, and investing in infrastructure projects. Every few years local elections are held where community members have the chance to nominate their preferred candidates for office. The current mayor has been in office since 2012 and has been successful in creating an atmosphere of collaboration and cooperation among all citizens regardless of political affiliation.
The political climate in Harrison City, PA is moderately conservative.
Westmoreland County, PA is strongly conservative. In Westmoreland County, PA 35.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 63.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Westmoreland county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 63.5% to 35.2%.
Westmoreland county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Harrison City, PA is moderately conservative.
Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania is strongly conservative.
Pittsburgh Metro Area is leaning 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.
Harrison City, 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 Harrison City, PA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 161 contributions totaling $8,570 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $53 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 44 contributions totaling $2,832 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $64 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)