South Whitehall, PA is a small community located in Lehigh County in the state of Pennsylvania. Despite its size, South Whitehall has an active and vibrant political scene. At the municipal level, there are numerous candidates running for various offices such as mayor and council members, who are all focused on improving the quality of life within their community. On the national level, South Whitehall also has various representatives from both major political parties running for Congress. These representatives are committed to advocating for their constituents and ensuring that their voices are heard in Washington D.C. Regardless of which candidate they prefer, South Whitehall residents can take comfort knowing that they have access to a wide variety of political options when it comes time to cast their vote.
The political climate in South Whitehall, PA is leaning conservative.
Lehigh County, PA is leaning liberal. In Lehigh County, PA 53.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 45.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Lehigh county remained moderately Democratic, 53.1% to 45.5%.
Lehigh county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
South Whitehall, PA is leaning conservative.
Lehigh County, Pennsylvania is leaning liberal.
Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton 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.
South Whitehall, Pennsylvania: d d D d d d
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 South Whitehall, PA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 22,312 contributions totaling $2,222,851 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $100 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 5,763 contributions totaling $2,540,800 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $441 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)