Sunrise Lake, PA is a small town with an involved local political scene. The town's government consists of a mayor and members of the city council, all of whom are elected by the citizens of Sunrise Lake. The Mayor and City Council focus on issues that directly affect citizens living in Sunrise Lake, such as public safety, infrastructure, taxes, and economic development. Many of these local political representatives are active in the community and hold regular meetings to discuss how best to represent the interests of their constituents. There is also an active local media presence that covers important news stories and provides updates on upcoming events that further involve local residents in matters that affect them.
The political climate in Sunrise Lake, PA is moderately conservative.
Pike County, PA is moderately conservative. In Pike County, PA 40.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 59.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Pike county remained very strongly Republican, 59.0% to 40.0%.
Pike county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Sunrise Lake, PA is moderately conservative.
Pike County, Pennsylvania is moderately conservative.
New York-Newark-Jersey City 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.
Sunrise Lake, 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 Sunrise Lake, PA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 763 contributions totaling $102,459 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $134 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 235 contributions totaling $43,301 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $184 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)