Buffalo Township in Butler County, Pennsylvania is a small rural community with a population of around 5,000 people. It is governed by a five-member board of supervisors who are elected at-large to four-year terms. The Township has various forms of taxation and services that are overseen and carried out by the Board. This includes road maintenance, refuse collection, public safety, zoning, building codes, and recreational activities. The Township also holds elections for local offices such as treasurer and auditor which are voted on by the residents of the township. In addition to these offices, Buffalo Township has its own police department that provides law enforcement services to the community. Overall, politics in Buffalo Township are heavily influenced by local concerns such as maintaining quality roads and providing adequate public safety measures. Residents take an active role in local politics by attending meetings and participating in elections to ensure their voices are heard.
The political climate in Buffalo township (Butler County), PA is strongly conservative.
Butler County, PA is very conservative. In Butler County, PA 33.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 65.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Butler county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 65.4% to 33.0%.
Butler county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Buffalo township (Butler County), PA is strongly conservative.
Butler County, Pennsylvania is very 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.
Buffalo township (Butler County), 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 Buffalo township (Butler County), PA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 105 contributions totaling $12,565 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $120 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 188 contributions totaling $30,153 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $160 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)