Editing Fayette County, Pennsylvania (section)

=== Voter registration ===
As of February 5, 2024, there were 77,979 registered voters in Fayette County.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pennsylvania Department of State |date=February 5, 2024 |title=Voter registration statistic by county |url=https://www.dos.pa.gov/VotingElections/OtherServicesEvents/VotingElectionStatistics/Pages/VotingElectionStatistics.aspx |access-date=February 5, 2024 |website=dos.pa.gov}}</ref>

* [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]: 37,355 (47.90%)
* [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]: 32,597 (41.80%)
* [[Independent (United States)|Independent]]: 5,776 (7.41%)
* [[Third party (United States)|Third Party]]: 2,251 (2.89%)
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Historically, Fayette County tended to lean strongly to the Democratic Party in statewide and national elections due to a strong union history, as county residents tend to be liberal on economic issues. At the presidential level, the Democratic candidate won by over 15 percentage points in every election from 1932 through 2004, with the exception of 1972 when it was carried by Republican [[Richard Nixon]] in his landslide re-election. 

However, similar to much of the rest of Western Pennsylvania outside of [[Greater Pittsburgh|Pittsburgh]] and [[Erie, Pennsylvania|Erie]], most residents tend to be socially conservative, and the county has been trending towards the Republicans since 1996.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.politicspa.com/msnbc-examines-western-pas-red-trend-videos/75627/ | title=MSNBC Examines Western PA's Red Trend (VIDEOS) | publisher=PoliticsPA | date=May 23, 2016 | access-date=August 30, 2016 | author=Field, Nick | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160911142352/http://www.politicspa.com/msnbc-examines-western-pas-red-trend-videos/75627/ | archive-date=September 11, 2016 }}</ref> In the past eight presidential elections, the Republican nominee has gained increasing support in each successive election, and the county was one of only 41 counties nationwide to flip from Democratic to Republican in 2008. Despite losing nationwide and statewide by a large margin, [[John McCain]] became the first Republican since 1972 and only the second Republican since 1928 to win Fayette County in 2008, and four years later, [[Mitt Romney]] became only the second Republican since 1928 to win a majority of the county's vote. In 2016, Republican [[Donald Trump]] won the county by a massive margin of 31 points (64% to 33%), becoming the first Republican to win the county by double digits since 1928, as well as the first Republican to receive over 60% of the county's vote in history. Four years later, he improved on his margin, winning 66.4-32.9. The county has also become solidly Republican in non-presidential races, with Republicans [[Lou Barletta]] and [[Scott Wagner]] carrying the county in the 2018 Senate and gubernatorial races, respectively, despite both losing statewide by margins of over 10 points.