Elizabeth Township, located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania is a small rural area with a population of just 3,000 people. The political landscape in Elizabeth Township is dominated by the Republican Party. Local political candidates campaigning for office tend to be members of the Republican Party. Issues commonly discussed by the candidates often relate to taxes, economic growth, and environmental protection. Every four years, when presidential elections take place, the small community of Elizabeth Township votes largely along party lines for their preferred candidate. Although there are not many local political races within Elizabeth Township itself, residents are very much engaged in local and national politics and take their civic duty seriously when voting.
The political climate in Elizabeth township (Lancaster County), PA is moderately 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
Elizabeth township (Lancaster County), PA is moderately 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.
Elizabeth township (Lancaster 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 Elizabeth township (Lancaster County), PA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 6,534 contributions totaling $499,221 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $76 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 3,244 contributions totaling $1,483,660 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $457 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)