Fort Washington is a small town in Pennsylvania and is home to many families and businesses. The local politics of Fort Washington are conducted at the municipal level, with representatives from each district participating in city council meetings to ensure that the needs of the community are met. The mayor, currently Jeanette Reiley, is responsible for setting the agenda for these meetings. The city council members focus on issues such as public safety, infrastructure improvements, economic development, and quality of life initiatives. Local elections are held every year with citizens voting for their favorite candidates. The overall goal of the city government is to provide essential services to residents while also planning for long-term growth.
The political climate in Fort Washington, PA is somewhat liberal.
Montgomery County, PA is strongly liberal. In Montgomery County, PA 62.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 36.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Montgomery county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 62.4% to 36.2%.
Montgomery county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Fort Washington, PA is somewhat liberal.
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania is strongly liberal.
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington Metro Area is strongly liberal.
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.
Fort Washington, 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 Fort Washington, PA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 4,934 contributions totaling $1,025,676 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $208 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,284 contributions totaling $620,926 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $484 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)