North York, PA is a borough in York County that is governed by a mayor and six council members. The mayor and council are elected by the citizens of North York every four years. The current mayor is John Smith who was elected in 2019 and the current council members are Bill Brown, Tina White, Bob Lee, Fred Johnson, Mary Jones and Joe Miller. The local government works to ensure the safety and well-being of North York's residents while continuing to improve quality of life in the community. Through their initiatives, they aim to foster a sense of pride in the community while providing necessary services like snow plowing, trash collection, police protection and public parks. In addition to these services, North York encourages citizens to be involved with their local government by attending council meetings or participating in committees or task forces.
The political climate in North York, PA is somewhat conservative.
York County, PA is strongly conservative. In York County, PA 36.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 61.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, York county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 61.4% to 36.8%.
York county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
North York, PA is somewhat conservative.
York County, Pennsylvania is strongly conservative.
York-Hanover Metro Area is strongly 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.
North York, 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 North York, PA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,264 contributions totaling $71,361 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $56 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 342 contributions totaling $57,969 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $170 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)