The politics in 15226 Pittsburgh, PA are very important to the local community. This area is represented by a number of different politicians in both the national and state government. At the federal level, Bob Casey Jr. is the United States Senator from Pennsylvania and Guy Reschenthaler represents Pennsylvania's 14th Congressional District that covers 15226 Pittsburgh. On the state level, Jay Costa serves as the State Senator for Pennsylvania's 43rd District and Adam Ravenstahl represents Pennsylvania's 20th Legislative District. These politicians focus on issues such as education, healthcare, infrastructure and economic growth for their constituents in 15226 Pittsburgh and across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
The political climate in Zip 15226 (Pittsburgh, PA) is somewhat liberal.
Allegheny County, PA is moderately liberal. In Allegheny County, PA 59.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 39.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Allegheny county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 59.4% to 39.0%.
Allegheny county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 15226 (Pittsburgh, PA) is somewhat liberal.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is somewhat liberal.
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania is moderately liberal.
Pittsburgh Metro Area is leaning conservative.
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.
Pittsburgh, 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 15226 (Pittsburgh)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 98 contributions totaling $6,387 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $65 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 24 contributions totaling $3,853 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $161 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)