Lower Allen Township, Pennsylvania is a small township located in Cumberland County. It is governed by three elected Commissioners who serve four-year terms and are elected at large on a partisan ballot. Each Commissioner serves as the head of one of the three departments of the township government: Administration and Finance, Public Safety, and Operations and Maintenance. In addition to the Commissioners, there are several other local government positions which include Tax Collector/Treasurer, Township Manager, Zoning Officer, and Secretary/Assistant Secretary. The state legislature also has representation in Lower Allen with two State Representatives and one Senator representing it in Harrisburg. Lower Allen Township is regularly active in local politics with several candidates running every election cycle for various local offices as well as campaigning for their preferred statewide candidates.
The political climate in Lower Allen township, PA is leaning conservative.
Cumberland County, PA is somewhat conservative. In Cumberland County, PA 43.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 54.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Cumberland county remained strongly Republican, 54.3% to 43.8%.
Cumberland county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Lower Allen township, PA is leaning conservative.
Cumberland County, Pennsylvania is somewhat conservative.
Harrisburg-Carlisle 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.
Lower Allen township, 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 Lower Allen township, PA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 9,033 contributions totaling $1,375,384 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $152 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 4,204 contributions totaling $1,704,705 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $406 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)