New Hanover, Pennsylvania is a small town located in Montgomery County. It is known for its rural environment and historic buildings. The local politics of New Hanover mainly focuses on improving the quality of life of its citizens by providing better services such as infrastructure, education and public safety. The town is represented by two representatives in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, who are supported by a mayor and a seven-member borough council. Additionally, they strive to bring economic growth to the community through initiatives such as promotion of local businesses and tourism. They also address environmental issues and strive to protect the surrounding natural resources. The town also has an active political climate with several civic organizations that work towards improving the standard of living in New Hanover. All in all, New Hanover is a great place to live with the local politicians ensuring that their constituents have access to a comfortable lifestyle.
The political climate in New Hanover, PA is leaning liberal.
Montgomery County, PA is strongly liberal. In Montgomery County, PA 62.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 36.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Montgomery county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 62.4% to 36.2%.
Montgomery county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
New Hanover, PA is leaning liberal.
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania is strongly liberal.
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington Metro Area is strongly liberal.
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.
New Hanover, 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 New Hanover, PA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,574 contributions totaling $202,596 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $79 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 837 contributions totaling $138,735 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $166 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)