Lower Macungie, PA is a township in Lehigh County and is home to approximately 33,000 residents. The local government consists of five supervisors and a board that are elected by the community. The current supervisor board serves until 2021 and is composed of three Republican members and two Democrat members. Each year, the local elections are held for the positions of supervisor, auditor, treasurer, tax collector and secretary. This year’s election will be especially important as it will determine who will lead the township for the next four years. Lower Macungie has also been active on state-level politics with several of its members lobbying in Harrisburg for issues such as education funding, public safety initiatives and environmental protection.
The political climate in Lower Macungie, PA is leaning conservative.
Lehigh County, PA is leaning liberal. In Lehigh County, PA 53.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 45.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Lehigh county remained moderately Democratic, 53.1% to 45.5%.
Lehigh county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Lower Macungie, PA is leaning conservative.
Lehigh County, Pennsylvania is leaning liberal.
Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton 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 Macungie, 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 Lower Macungie, PA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 11,561 contributions totaling $1,293,546 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $112 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 4,676 contributions totaling $1,578,250 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $338 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)