Summit Township in Potter County, PA is governed by the Summit Township Board of Supervisors. The board is composed of three members who are elected to four year terms. The Board of Supervisors oversees the township's budget and works with its citizens to ensure that the town is running smoothly and efficiently. The current Supervisors are Joe White, Melissa Mackey and Mike Smith. They are responsible for making sure that all local ordinances are in place to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens within Summit Township. They also work to provide essential services such as police protection, fire protection, street maintenance, snow removal and other municipal duties. In addition to these services, the Board also works on many community-based projects which aim to improve the quality of life for those living in Summit Township.
The political climate in Summit township (Potter County), PA is very conservative.
Potter County, PA is very conservative. In Potter County, PA 19.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 79.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Potter county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 79.7% to 19.0%.
Potter county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Summit township (Potter County), PA is very conservative.
Potter County, Pennsylvania 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.
Summit township (Potter 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 Summit township (Potter County), PA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 69 contributions totaling $5,362 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $78 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 72 contributions totaling $20,624 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $286 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)