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==Politics== As of September 21, 2023, there were 253,186 registered voters in Berks County.<ref>{{cite web |last=Pennsylvania Department of State |date=July 17, 2023 |title=Voter registration statistics by county |url=https://www.dos.pa.gov/VotingElections/OtherServicesEvents/VotingElectionStatistics/Documents/currentvotestats.xls |access-date=July 20, 2023 |website=dos.pa.gov}} ''dos.pa.gov''</ref> * [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]: 107,690 (42.53%) * [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]: 104,430 (41.24%) * [[Independent (United States)|Independent]]: 30,154 (11.91%) * [[Third party (United States)|Minor parties]]: 10,912 (4.31%) Berks County is strongly Republican, but is still competitive. As of 2023, the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] maintained a total registration edge over Democrats in Berks County. At the top of the Pennsylvania ticket in November 2022, Berks County split its votes, supporting [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] [[Josh Shapiro]] for [[Governor of Pennsylvania|governor]] and Republican [[Mehmet Oz]] for [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]]. The last Democratic presidential candidate to win the county was [[Barack Obama]] in [[2008 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania|2008]]. {{PresHead|place=Berks County, Pennsylvania|whig=no|source1=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS|title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections|first=David|last=Leip|website=uselectionatlas.org}}</ref>}} <!-- PresRow should be {{PresRow|Year|Winning party|GOP/Whig vote #|Dem vote #|3rd party vote #|State}} --> {{PresRow|2024|Republican|116,677|91,125|2,624|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|2020|Republican|109,926|93,116|3,511|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|2016|Republican|96,626|78,437|9,022|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|2012|Republican|84,702|83,011|2,963|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|2008|Democratic|80,513|97,047|2,951|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|2004|Republican|87,122|76,309|1,056|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|2000|Republican|71,273|59,150|4,874|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1996|Republican|56,289|49,887|15,542|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1992|Republican|52,939|46,031|32,437|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1988|Republican|70,153|41,040|1,251|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1984|Republican|74,605|37,849|691|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1980|Republican|60,576|36,449|10,360|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1976|Republican|54,452|50,994|2,107|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1972|Republican|66,172|36,563|3,392|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1968|Republican|50,623|49,877|8,424|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1964|Democratic|36,726|73,444|476|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1960|Republican|61,743|50,572|391|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1956|Republican|57,258|42,349|320|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1952|Republican|51,720|45,874|1,074|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1948|Democratic|35,608|43,075|3,043|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1944|Democratic|35,274|43,889|2,247|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1940|Democratic|32,111|53,301|1,530|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1936|Democratic|26,699|56,907|4,721|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1932|Democratic|27,073|29,763|16,187|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1928|Republican|47,073|18,960|7,481|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1924|Republican|28,186|17,220|9,487|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1920|Republican|22,221|18,361|6,009|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1916|Democratic|11,937|19,267|3,565|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1912|Democratic|3,032|16,430|15,098|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1908|Democratic|13,642|17,381|2,245|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1904|Democratic|15,539|16,357|1,683|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1900|Democratic|13,952|19,013|628|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1896|Democratic|14,318|18,099|665|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1892|Democratic|10,077|18,602|312|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1888|Democratic|10,626|18,105|261|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1884|Democratic|9,587|16,484|226|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1880|Democratic|9,225|16,959|181|Pennsylvania}} |} {{U.S. SenHead|place=Berks County, Pennsylvania|Seat=1|source=<ref>{{cite news |title=2024 Senate Election (Official Returns) |website=Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by county |date=November 5, 2024 |access-date=December 5, 2024 |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/pennsylvania-senate-results}}</ref>}} <!-- U.S. SenRow should be {{U.S. SenRow|Year|Winning party|GOP vote #|Dem vote #|3rd party vote #|State}} --> {{U.S. SenRow|2024|Republican|108,058|89,063|6,521|Pennsylvania}} {{U.S. SenFoot}} The first time since 1964 that a Democrat carried Berks in a Presidential election occurred in 2008, with [[Barack Obama]] receiving 53.9% of the vote to [[John McCain]]'s 44.7%. The other three statewide winners ([[Rob McCord]] for treasurer, [[Jack Wagner (politician)|Jack Wagner]] for auditor general, and [[Tom Corbett]] for attorney general) also carried it.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.electionreturns.state.pa.us/ElectionsInformation.aspx?ElectionID=28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121116081121/http://www.electionreturns.state.pa.us/ElectionsInformation.aspx?ElectionID=28|archive-date=November 16, 2012|website=electionreturns.state.pa.us|title=2008 General Election - Pennsylvania Department of State - Elections Info}}</ref> While Republicans have controlled the commissioner majority most of the time and continue to control most county row offices, Democrats have become more competitive in Berks in recent years. In the 2012 Presidential election, [[Mitt Romney]] carried the county by approximately a one-percent margin, 49.6% to 48.6%, however, in 2016, [[Donald Trump]] carried Berks by a much larger margin of 52.9% to 42.7%.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://elections.co.berks.pa.us/results/default.aspx|access-date=November 16, 2016|title=Election Results}}</ref>{{Pie chart|thumb=left|caption=Chart of Voter Registration|label1=[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]|value1=42.53|color1={{party color|Republican Party (United States)}}|label2=[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]|value2=41.36|color2={{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}|label3=[[Independent (United States)|Independent]]|value3=11.78|color3={{party color|Independent (United States)}}|label4=[[Third party (United States)|Other Parties]]|value4=4.32|color4={{party color|Green Party (United States)}}}}
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