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Richland township, located in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, is a vibrant community with a great quality of life. With several parks and trails, plenty of shopping and dining options, and convenient access to the city of Pittsburgh, Richland Township has a lot to offer its residents. Politically speaking, Richland Township is part of the 20th Congressional District in Pennsylvania. The current representative for this district is Congressman Conor Lamb, who was elected in 2018. At the state level, Richland Township is part of the 42nd Legislative District represented by both Representative Valerie Gaydos and Senator Ed Eichenlaub. Locally, Richland Township is governed by five elected supervisors who serve four-year terms. The supervisors meet regularly to discuss township issues and work together to ensure that Richland Township remains an attractive place to live and work for its citizens.

The political climate in Richland township (Allegheny County), PA is leaning liberal.

Allegheny County, PA is moderately liberal. In Allegheny County, PA 59.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 39.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.

In the last Presidential election, Allegheny county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 59.4% to 39.0%.
Allegheny county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.


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Richland township (Allegheny County), PA is leaning liberal.


Allegheny County, Pennsylvania is moderately liberal.

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.

Richland township (Allegheny County), 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 Richland township (Allegheny County), PA

In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 3,528 contributions totaling $839,214 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $238 per contribution.

In the last 4 years, there were 2,511 contributions totaling $1,846,717 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $735 per contribution.

(source: Federal Election Commission)

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