Bedford County, Pennsylvania is governed by its Commissioners' Court of three elected commissioners who serve four-year terms. The county has a total of seven municipalities and is managed by the county courthouse in Bedford. The county's local government also includes eight school districts, which provide education to students K-12. The politics of the area generally leans conservative, with Republicans typically winning most elections by a large margin. The county also features numerous small town city councils and borough councils as well as an executive branch headed by the President Commissioner who leads the court. In general, the citizens of Bedford County are passionate about their local politics and take part in democratic processes to ensure that their voices are being heard at both the state and local levels.
The political climate in Bedford County, PA is very conservative.
In Bedford County, PA 15.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 83.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 0.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Bedford county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 83.4% to 15.8%.
Bedford county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Bedford 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.
Bedford, 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 Bedford County, PA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 510 contributions totaling $24,720 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $48 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 677 contributions totaling $212,352 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $314 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)