Sinking Spring is a small borough located in Berks County, Pennsylvania. Politics in Sinking Spring are largely determined by who is elected to the Borough Council. The Borough Council consists of seven members who each serve four year terms. The current council consists of a President, Vice-President, Secretary/Treasurer, and four additional councilors. The council meets every second and fourth Monday of the month at the Sinking Spring Borough Hall to debate and vote on proposed legislation for the borough. Every election cycle, local residents can run to be on the Sinking Spring Borough Council. The primary focus for the council is ensuring that local services like garbage collection, police protection, and parks maintenance are both efficient and cost effective for taxpayers. Through their decisions, borough councilors directly impact the quality of life in Sinking Spring and help shape its future.
The political climate in Sinking Spring, PA is leaning conservative.
Berks County, PA is leaning conservative. In Berks County, PA 45.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 53.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Berks county remained moderately Republican, 53.2% to 45.1%.
Berks county voted Republican in five of the last six Presidential elections (2008 went Democratic).
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Sinking Spring, PA is leaning conservative.
Berks County, Pennsylvania is leaning conservative.
Reading 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.
Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania: r r d 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 Sinking Spring, PA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 390 contributions totaling $50,692 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $130 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 318 contributions totaling $116,037 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $365 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)