Lehman Township is located in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania and is a rural and scenic community. It is governed by a five-member Board of Supervisors who are elected to serve four-year terms in office. The current supervisors are Donald E. Belles, Jr., William R. Mott, James J. McKeown, Jr., Neil Karpinski and Susan Duell-Falkowski. Lehman Township has been able to maintain its rural character by protecting the agricultural fields, woodlands and streams that run through it. As the local government works to improve infrastructure such as roads and emergency services they also strive to keep taxes low for residents while providing necessary services and programs for the community such as recreational activities, park maintenance and conservation efforts. In addition to these efforts they are also striving to create a more sustainable future for the township by encouraging green initiatives such as recycling programs and green energy projects like solar farms.
The political climate in Lehman township (Luzerne County), PA is moderately conservative.
Luzerne County, PA is somewhat conservative. In Luzerne County, PA 42.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 56.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Luzerne county remained strongly Republican, 56.6% to 42.3%.
Luzerne county voted Republican in the two most recent Presidential elections, after voting Democratic in the previous four.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Lehman township (Luzerne County), PA is moderately conservative.
Luzerne County, Pennsylvania is somewhat conservative.
Scranton--Wilkes-Barre 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.
Lehman township (Luzerne County), Pennsylvania: d d d d 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 Lehman township (Luzerne County), PA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 736 contributions totaling $254,542 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $346 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 666 contributions totaling $724,636 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $1,088 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)