Politics and government
Presidential elections results[14]
Year Republican Democratic
2020 19.7% 619 79.1% 2,481
2016 20.6% 563 74.9% 2,052
2012 27.1% 724 71.4% 1,905
2008 25.1% 708 73.8% 2,079
2004 28.6% 832 71.0% 2,068
2000 29.9% 791 65.7% 1,734
Jenkintown has a city manager form of government with a mayor and a twelve-member borough council. The current mayor is Gabriel Lerman. Deborra Sines Pancoe is the President of Borough Council, and Jay Conners is vice president.
The borough is part of the Fourth Congressional District, represented by Madeleine Dean. At the state level, Jenkintown is part of the Pennsylvania’s 154th Representative District, represented by Napoleon Nelson, and the 4th Senatorial District, represented by Arthur L. Haywood III. All are Democrats. Jenkintown, like its surroundings of Abington and Cheltenham and their included towns, votes overwhelmingly Democratic.
The demographics are fine for the borough of Jenkintown, except Beverly Road is not part of the borough, but rather part of Abington Township.
When I first moved to Abington Township, a friendly supermarket stockboy told me they sold a lot of gefilta fish and catfish to area shoppers, if you understand the meaning.