Thornbury Township is a small community located in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Located about 18 miles west of Philadelphia, Thornbury Township is home to just over 8,000 residents. The township is governed by a five-member Board of Supervisors who are elected by the township's registered voters. Each Supervisor serves on the Board for a maximum of four years and must be re-elected to stay in office. The Board makes decisions and laws that affect all township residents, such as zoning regulations and property taxes. Residents also elect their state representatives and senator in elections held each year on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. In addition to state and local elections, Thornbury Township residents also have the opportunity to vote for U.S. Congress members as well as President every four years on Election Day. Through their votes, townspeople have an opportunity to shape both local and national politics according to their interests and values.
The political climate in Thornbury township (Delaware County), PA is leaning liberal.
Delaware County, PA is strongly liberal. In Delaware County, PA 62.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 36.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Delaware county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 62.8% to 36.0%.
Delaware county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Thornbury township (Delaware County), PA is leaning liberal.
Delaware County, Pennsylvania is strongly liberal.
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington 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.
Thornbury township (Delaware County), Pennsylvania: D D D D D D
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 Thornbury township (Delaware County), PA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 6,596 contributions totaling $766,023 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $116 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,778 contributions totaling $611,294 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $344 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)