East Hempfield, PA is a small community located in Lancaster County. It is home to a diverse population with many different political viewpoints and opinions. The city holds regular local elections for the mayor and other elected officials, as well as district-wide elections for representatives to the state legislature. The current mayor of East Hempfield is John Smith who was elected in 2018 and currently serves a four year term. In addition, voters have also selected several representatives from East Hempfield to serve on the Lancaster County Board of Commissioners, which provides governing oversight for the county. With an active and engaged citizenry, East Hempfield is a great example of how democracy can work at its best!
The political climate in East Hempfield, PA is somewhat conservative.
Lancaster County, PA is somewhat conservative. In Lancaster County, PA 41.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 56.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Lancaster county remained very strongly Republican, 56.9% to 41.2%.
Lancaster county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
East Hempfield, PA is somewhat conservative.
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania is somewhat conservative.
Lancaster Metro Area is somewhat 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.
East Hempfield, 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 East Hempfield, PA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 10,815 contributions totaling $1,111,770 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $103 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 2,655 contributions totaling $1,087,969 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $410 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)