Penn Township, located in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania is governed by a five-member Board of Supervisors. These elected officials are responsible for the management and oversight of the township. The Board of Supervisors meets regularly to discuss matters relating to finance, public safety, land use planning, and infrastructure improvements. The current board members are Ron Eichelberger, Michael Coccia, Jeffery Ryder, Dale Shaffer and Kevin King. Every two years residents can vote for up to three board members during the municipal election. The board works together with the local police department and other government agencies to ensure the community remains safe and prosperous for its citizens. They also fund initiatives to improve infrastructure such as road paving projects or new community centers. Penn Township strives to be a place where people can live, work and play in a safe environment that is also respectful of its citizens through its fiscal responsibility and sound governance.
The political climate in Penn 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
Penn 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.
Penn 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 Penn township (Huntingdon County), PA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 963 contributions totaling $22,546 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $23 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 274 contributions totaling $64,914 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $237 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)