Ridley Park, PA has a strong sense of community and is an active participant in local politics. The town is represented by elected officials at the county, state, and federal levels. At the county level they have representatives in the Delaware County Council and also state representatives who serve in the Pennsylvania General Assembly. At the federal level, they are represented in Congress by their two U.S. House Representatives. Voters in Ridley Park make their voices heard through local elections, where candidates vie for positions on the Ridley School Board and other local boards responsible for overseeing day-to-day operations of the town’s government. Residents of Ridley Park are actively involved in politics, engaging in discussions about issues that affect them directly as well as participating in political campaigns. Public forums held throughout town help to keep residents informed on important topics and encourage citizens to get involved and make their voice heard at election time.
The political climate in Ridley Park, PA is somewhat liberal.
Delaware County, PA is strongly liberal. In Delaware County, PA 62.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 36.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Delaware county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 62.8% to 36.0%.
Delaware county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Ridley Park, PA is somewhat liberal.
Delaware 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.
Ridley Park, 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 Ridley Park, PA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 4,560 contributions totaling $91,478 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $20 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 92 contributions totaling $10,031 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $109 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)