Jackson Township is located in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, and is governed by a three-member Board of Supervisors. The members are elected in odd-numbered years to four-year terms, with two seats up for election every other year. The Board has the responsibility to ensure that the township functions efficiently and properly; this includes enforcing laws, maintaining roads and bridges, providing public safety services, and making sure all public facilities are maintained. It also oversees planning and zoning issues within the township. Jackson Township is part of Pennsylvania’s 15th legislative district represented by Representative Garth Everett, Senator Gene Yaw and Representative Jeff Wheeland. Residents have access to various local political candidates at the county level providing a variety of ideas on how to best serve the community.
The political climate in Jackson township (Lycoming County), 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
Jackson township (Lycoming County), 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.
Jackson township (Lycoming 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 Jackson township (Lycoming County), PA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 24 contributions totaling $332 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $14 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 190 contributions totaling $22,997 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $121 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)