Smithfield Township is a rural community located in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. The township is served by a three-member Board of Supervisors who serve four-year terms. The current supervisors are Mike Dotts, Gary Hoffman, and Eric Retzbach. The Board of Supervisors is responsible for setting the annual budget and making decisions about local zoning and infrastructure projects. As a rural community, Smithfield Township relies heavily on state and federal funding to support its public services and infrastructure, including road resurfacing, repair of bridges, maintenance of parks, libraries, fire departments and police departments. In addition to these services, the Township maintains close ties with local businesses to foster economic development in the area. Local politics focuses on issues such as taxes, education and infrastructure that affect residents living in Smithfield Township.
The political climate in Smithfield township (Huntingdon County), PA is moderately 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
Smithfield township (Huntingdon County), PA is moderately 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.
Smithfield 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 Smithfield township (Huntingdon County), PA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 942 contributions totaling $21,511 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $23 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 256 contributions totaling $62,272 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $243 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)