Rush Township is located in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Home to a population of over 5,000 people, this rural township is governed by a Board of Supervisors and several appointed committees. The Board is comprised of five members who are elected to four year terms. These supervisors oversee the day-to-day operations of the Township, such as road maintenance, safety services and garbage collection. The Township also maintains its own police force and fire protection service. The political landscape in Rush Township is largely unaffected by national politics and focuses on local issues that affect the community directly such as taxation, development projects and ordinances for zoning and public safety. Residents have an opportunity to voice their opinions through local elections or attending Board meetings on topics ranging from building permits to budgeting decisions. In order to remain informed about local politics, it is important for residents to stay in contact with their elected officials or attend township meetings when relevant issues are discussed.
The political climate in Rush township (Schuylkill County), PA is strongly conservative.
Schuylkill County, PA is very conservative. In Schuylkill County, PA 29.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 69.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Schuylkill county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 69.1% to 29.3%.
Schuylkill county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Rush township (Schuylkill County), PA is strongly conservative.
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania is very conservative.
Pottsville 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.
Rush township (Schuylkill 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 Rush township (Schuylkill County), PA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 237 contributions totaling $31,593 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $133 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 185 contributions totaling $66,880 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $362 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)