Fort Washington, PA is a small suburb of Philadelphia with a population of 5,446. It is located in Montgomery County and falls within the 13th Congressional District represented in Congress by Rep. Brendan Boyle. At the state level, the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives 14th district is represented by Rep. Todd Stephens and at the local level, Fort Washington is part of the Upper Dublin Township Board of Commissioners which consists of five members who are elected to serve four-year terms. The current commissioners are President Mimi Gleason, Vice President Paul Leonardi, Treasurer Diane Olkwitz, Secretary Matthew Gomeringer and Commissioner Ernie Naughton who were all elected in November 2019. Residents also have representation on the Upper Dublin School Board which consists of nine members serving overlapping four-year terms. The board works to ensure that area children receive an excellent education while also managing budgets and other financial matters pertaining to schools in the region.
The political climate in Zip 19034 (Fort Washington, PA) is somewhat liberal.
Montgomery County, PA is strongly liberal. In Montgomery County, PA 62.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 36.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Montgomery county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 62.4% to 36.2%.
Montgomery county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 19034 (Fort Washington, PA) is somewhat liberal.
Fort Washington, Pennsylvania is somewhat liberal.
Montgomery 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.
Fort Washington, 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 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 19034 (Fort Washington)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,263 contributions totaling $281,065 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $223 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 364 contributions totaling $196,075 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $539 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)