Forest Hills, PA is a small borough located in Westmoreland County. It is home to a diverse population of people who value their community and are passionate about local politics. This passion is demonstrated by the numerous debates, forums, and meetings that take place every election season. Forest Hills residents are dedicated to making sure that their voices are heard during elections and strive to ensure that their representatives will make decisions that benefit all of its citizens. During election season, candidates from both major political parties come out in full force to appeal to voters with their stances on various issues such as taxes, education, health care, and infrastructure. Candidates have vigorous campaigns which allow them to reach out directly to the people of Forest Hills and explain why their policies are best for the city's future. By doing so they hope to gain support from the community so they can ultimately be elected into office. Ultimately it is up to the people of Forest Hills to decide which candidate has the right vision for their future.
The political climate in Forest Hills, PA is somewhat liberal.
Allegheny County, PA is moderately liberal. In Allegheny County, PA 59.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 39.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Allegheny county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 59.4% to 39.0%.
Allegheny county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Forest Hills, PA is somewhat liberal.
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania is moderately liberal.
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.
Forest Hills, 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 Forest Hills, PA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,943 contributions totaling $177,682 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $91 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 195 contributions totaling $35,348 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $181 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)