Bastress, PA is a small town located in the rural countryside of Pennsylvania. Despite its small population size, Bastress is an active and engaged community when it comes to local politics. Every four years, local residents come together to elect their representatives for the town’s mayor, councilperson and school board members. There are often several candidates running in each election and local citizens make sure they are well informed before casting their votes. During election season, there are numerous debates organized throughout the town where candidates discuss their platforms and plans for the future of Bastress. It is not uncommon to see passionate residents standing up and voicing their opinions about the current political climate in the town during these debates. Ultimately, local elections in Bastress demonstrate that citizens take pride in being engaged and involved with their local government.
The political climate in Bastress, PA is very conservative.
Lycoming County, PA is very conservative. In Lycoming County, PA 28.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 69.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Lycoming county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 69.8% to 28.6%.
Lycoming county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Bastress, PA is very conservative.
Lycoming County, Pennsylvania is very conservative.
Williamsport 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.
Bastress, 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 Bastress, PA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 103 contributions totaling $14,439 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $140 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 0 contributions totaling $0 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $0 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)