Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania is a small town located in Butler County with a population of about 6,000 people. Despite its small size, Slippery Rock has an active political structure and is represented by multiple local government representatives at the county, state and federal level. At the county level, 16057 Slippery Rock is represented by Commissioner Kim Geyer in the Butler County Board of Commissioners. The state-level representation for 16057 Slippery Rock is provided by PA State Representative Valerie Gaydos who serves in the General Assembly representing the 44th legislative district. At the federal level, 16057 Slippery Rock is represented by U.S. Representative Mike Kelly who serves in congress representing Pennsylvania’s 16th Congressional District. With all these levels of representation available to it's residents, 16057 Slippery Rock has many opportunities to have their voices heard on political issues both locally and beyond.
The political climate in Zip 16057 (Slippery Rock, PA) is moderately conservative.
Butler County, PA is very conservative. In Butler County, PA 33.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 65.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Butler county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 65.4% to 33.0%.
Butler county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 16057 (Slippery Rock, PA) is moderately conservative.
Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania is moderately conservative.
Butler County, Pennsylvania is very conservative.
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.
Slippery Rock, 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 16057 (Slippery Rock)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,502 contributions totaling $38,494 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $26 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 96 contributions totaling $9,747 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $102 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)