The Mahanoy Area Historical Society covers the regions which comprise the Mahanoy Area School District: Mahanoy City, Mahanoy Township, Delano, Gilberton and Ryan Township. Below you will find the results of the last twenty-five presidential elections that were held in the Mahanoy area. In looking over the following charts you will find the answers to the following questions:

 

 

  1. Of the five voting areas listed, which one picked the winner the most times in the last 100 years?
  2. Which voting area has always voted Republican?
  3. Which presidential election year saw the greatest local turnout ?
  4. Which two regions have voted Democrat in twenty-one of the twenty -five elections?
  5. Which area has increased the number of voters consistantly over the last one hundred years?
  6. Which third party candidate received the greatest number of votes ?
  7. What election year had the closest race in Mahanoy City?
  8. Which three Republican candidates swept all five voting regions?
  9. Which candidate won the greatest percentage of the local vote in the last 100 years?
  10. Who will win in 2020?

 

 

 

 

 

Answers

 

 

  1. Of the five voting areas listed, which one picked the winner the most times in the last 100 years? Delano picked the winner in 19 of 25 contests.

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  2. Which voting area has always voted Republican? Ryan Township

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  3. Which presidential election year saw the greatest local turnout ? Over 22,000 persons voted in the 1936 election in which Franklin D. Roosevelt won a landslide 2nd term victory during the depths of the Great Depression.

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  4. Which two regions have voted Democrat in twenty-one of the twenty -five elections? Mahanoy Township and Gilberton have been traditional Democratic strongholds.

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  5. Which area has increased the number of voters consistantly over the last one hundred years?Ryan Township is the only region in which the population has increased.

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  6. Which third party candidate received the greatest number of votes ? In 1924 Robert M. LaFollette received almost 12% of the local vote and actually received more votes than the Democratic candidate in an election won by the Republican candidate, Calvin Coolidge.

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  7. What election year had the closest race in Mahanoy City? In 1980 Ronald Reagan lost to Jimmy Carter by just 43 votes in Mahanoy City borough.

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  8. Which three Republican candidates swept all five voting regions? Calvin Coolidge in 1924, Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956 and Donald Trump in 2016 won in all five regions of the Mahanoy area.
  9. Which candidate won the greatest percentage of the local vote in the last 100 years? In 2016 Donald Trump won almost 70% of the local vote.
  10. Who will win in 2020? It's up to you ! VOTE.

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