Potter County, Pennsylvania is a rural and largely agricultural county located in the northern regions of the state. The county has a long history of political participation and engagement from local citizens. Each election cycle, Potter County residents come out to support their chosen candidates and voice their opinion on the issues they care about most. In recent years, Potter County has been represented by two different members of the Republican party at the state level: Representative Bob Smith and Senator Jane Doe. At the local level, members of both major parties have served as county commissioners, sheriff's deputies, and judges. Local elections are always hotly contested and citizens of Potter County take pride in participating in the democratic process.
The political climate in 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
Potter County, PA is very conservative.
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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.
Potter, 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 for the Democrat and I for the Independent. 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 Potter County, PA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 88 contributions totaling $6,553 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $74 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 177 contributions totaling $37,220 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $210 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)