Miller Township is a small community located in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. The township has a strong emphasis on local politics, with many different candidates running for various positions each election cycle. Most recently, the mayoralty race was hotly contested between incumbent mayor Tom Morris and challenger Jack McAllister. Both candidates ran on platforms of fiscal responsibility and economic growth for Miller Township, but ultimately incumbent Mayor Morris won by a narrow margin. In addition to the mayor’s race, Miller Township residents are also able to vote for their town council representatives every two years. These town council members are responsible for making important decisions that affect the daily lives of Miller Township citizens, such as passing ordinances and setting budgets. With the current political climate being so turbulent, elections in Miller Township have become even more important than ever before.
The political climate in Miller township (Huntingdon County), PA is very conservative.
Huntingdon County, PA is very conservative. In Huntingdon County, PA 23.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 74.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Huntingdon county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 74.7% to 23.8%.
Huntingdon county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Miller township (Huntingdon County), PA is very conservative.
Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania is very conservative.
Huntingdon 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.
Miller township (Huntingdon 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 Miller township (Huntingdon County), PA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 942 contributions totaling $21,511 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $23 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 256 contributions totaling $62,272 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $243 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)