New Brighton, PA is a small town in Beaver County with a population of approximately 3,717 people according to the most recent census. Politically, New Brighton leans heavily towards the Democratic party. In recent years, local elections have been won by Democrats. For example, in the 2020 election for mayor, Democrat William Ostrander was elected to serve a four-year term. He has promised to focus on improving the quality of life for all citizens of New Brighton while also maintaining a strong fiscal policy. Additionally, the majority of New Brighton residents vote Democratic in Congressional and Senate elections as well. The city of New Brighton takes their politics seriously and always looks forward to welcoming new perspectives from each election cycle.
The political climate in New Brighton, PA is leaning conservative.
Beaver County, PA is moderately conservative. In Beaver County, PA 40.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 58.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Beaver county remained very strongly Republican, 58.0% to 40.4%.
Beaver county voted Republican in the last four Presidential elections, after voting Democratic in 2000 and 2004.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
New Brighton, PA is leaning conservative.
Beaver County, Pennsylvania is moderately conservative.
Pittsburgh 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.
New Brighton, Pennsylvania: d d 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 New Brighton, PA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 159 contributions totaling $10,409 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $65 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 71 contributions totaling $84,755 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $1,194 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)