Scott Township, located in Columbia County, Pennsylvania is a small township with a population of approximately 3,000 people. It is governed by the Scott Township Board of Supervisors which includes three members elected at large to serve six year terms. At the local level, political candidates are often elected based on issues that impact the community such as taxes, zoning decisions and infrastructure improvements. The township also has representatives in the state legislature and in Congress who bring attention to local needs at a state and national level. Although there are several political parties represented in Scott Township, most of its residents tend to vote along party lines for their preferred candidates.
The political climate in Scott township (Columbia County), PA is moderately conservative.
Columbia County, PA is strongly conservative. In Columbia County, PA 33.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 64.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Columbia county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 64.3% to 33.7%.
Columbia county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Scott township (Columbia County), PA is moderately conservative.
Columbia County, Pennsylvania is strongly conservative.
Bloomsburg-Berwick 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.
Scott township (Columbia 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 Scott township (Columbia County), PA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 14,752 contributions totaling $360,921 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $24 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 974 contributions totaling $221,959 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $228 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)