Coudersport, Pennsylvania is a small town with a population of around 2,500 people. It is located in Potter County and is governed by a nine-member board of commissioners. The current chairperson of the board is Raymond Diehl. Coudersport has had many different political initiatives over the years, with the most recent being the introduction of a new recycling system for households in 2019. Several local candidates have campaigned on issues such as expanding public transportation and improving infrastructure in order to attract more businesses to Coudersport. The residents of Coudersport are very active politically and vote consistently on all issues that affect their community. Although there are no major party candidates running for election in Coudersport this year, the town's citizens remain engaged in politics through local election campaigns and making sure their voices are heard by those who represent them.
The political climate in Zip 16915 (Coudersport, 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
Zip 16915 (Coudersport, PA) is very conservative.
Coudersport, Pennsylvania is very conservative.
Potter County, Pennsylvania 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.
Coudersport, 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 zip 16915 (Coudersport)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 63 contributions totaling $5,260 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $83 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 71 contributions totaling $20,124 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $283 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)