Editing Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania (section)

==Law and government==
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The Schuylkill County Sheriff's Department consists of the Sheriff's Office and operates the Central Booking unit. The Sheriff's Office is composed of a Civil and Criminal Division. The Civil Division processes real estate and property paperwork, as well as issue firearms permits. The Criminal Division is responsible for the security of the courthouses, as well as the transportation of prisoners to and from court hearings and to other correctional facilities. The Sheriff's Department is also responsible for detecting and interdicting weapons before they can enter the courthouse and making criminal arrests of persons when weapons are found. The Sheriff's Department provides all facets of security for the County courthouse and makes arrests inside the courthouse for various offenses including possession of weapons and controlled substances as well as the arrest of disorderly persons and other violations of the Pennsylvania Crimes Code Title 18. All Deputy Sheriffs are sworn law enforcement officers who must attend the state Sheriff Academy in State College to be certified as a Deputy Sheriff. The Sheriff Academy is a paramilitary Sheriff academy that consists of 6 months of intense training in all facets of criminal and civil law of Pennsylvania as well as physical training, self defense training, weapons certification and training, as well as tactical training, training in handcuffing and restraint, courtroom and courthouse security, and conducting security assessments of Courthouse and courtroom facilities. Central Booking processes fingerprints and photographs of arrested individuals. When requested by other police agencies, the Sheriff's Department performs patrol duties in various communities within Schuylkill county and provides support to other Police agencies during major incidents, search warrant executions, arrest warrant operations, special events and in various other capacities.

=== Politics ===
{{PresHead|place=Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania|source=<ref>{{cite web|url=https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/|title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections|website=uselectionatlas.org}}</ref>}}
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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|51,665|20,882|814|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|48,871|20,727|1,157|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|44,001|16,770|2,614|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|32,278|24,546|1,224|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|33,767|28,300|1,538|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|35,640|29,231|398|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|29,841|26,215|2,244|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|22,920|24,860|8,849|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|25,780|23,679|13,570|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|32,666|24,797|379|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|37,330|25,758|224|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|36,273|24,968|3,728|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|31,944|33,905|1,099|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|44,071|26,077|1,447|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|37,194|34,982|4,469|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|26,386|50,560|96|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1960|Democratic|44,187|44,430|70|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|51,670|31,645|91|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|51,437|34,987|186|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1948|Republican|44,176|28,194|1,122|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1944|Republican|40,671|35,852|221|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|43,505|48,739|231|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|44,353|55,183|1,385|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|32,492|35,023|1,790|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|46,033|40,424|311|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|34,578|10,111|8,967|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|30,259|18,746|1,882|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1916|Republican|17,806|13,396|1,155|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1912|Progressive|3,557|11,812|16,706|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1908|Republican|18,758|15,481|1,440|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1904|Republican|21,046|10,115|1,167|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1900|Republican|15,327|14,496|392|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1896|Republican|17,045|14,745|617|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1892|Democratic|11,426|13,677|321|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1888|Democratic|12,522|13,054|404|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1884|Republican|11,272|11,200|1,575|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1880|Democratic|9,337|11,511|2,491|Pennsylvania}}
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{{U.S. SenHead|place=Schuylkill 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>}}
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{{U.S. SenRow|2024|Republican|48,553|22,224|2,063|Pennsylvania}}
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{{As of|November 2008}}, there were 94,110 registered voters in Schuylkill County.<ref name="Voter Registration">{{cite web|url=http://www.dos.state.pa.us/elections/lib/elections/055_voter_registration_statistics/currentstats/currentvotestats.xls |format=XLS |title=November 2008 Voter Registration Statistics |access-date=November 3, 2008 |author=Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of State |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081126213316/http://www.dos.state.pa.us/elections/lib/elections/055_voter_registration_statistics/currentstats/currentvotestats.xls |archive-date=November 26, 2008 }}</ref>
* [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]: 45,054 (47.87%)
* [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]: 40,092 (42.60%)
* Other Parties: 8,964 (9.53%)

{{As of|January 2023}}, there were 88,642 registered voters in Schuylkill County.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dos.pa.gov/VotingElections/OtherServicesEvents/VotingElectionStatistics/Documents/currentvotestats.xls |title=Home }}</ref>
* [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]: 49,025 (55.31%)
* [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]: 27,924 (31.50%)
* [[Independent (United States)|Independent]]: 7,508 (8.47%)
* [[Third party (United States)|Third Party]]: 4,185 (4.72%)

While the Republican Party has been historically dominant in Schuylkill County politics, Democrats became dominant at the county level after the 2007 elections. [[John McCain]] received 53.6% of the vote to 44.9% for [[Barack Obama]] in November 2008. In the state row offices of the same election, each statewide winner carried the county. In 2006 Democrat [[Tim Seip]] won the heavily Republican 125th House district and [[Bob Casey Jr.]] carried Schuylkill when he unseated incumbent Republican US Senator [[Rick Santorum]]. For many years, the county was represented in the [[United States House of Representatives]] by [[conservative Democrat]] [[Tim Holden]] of [[St. Clair, Pennsylvania|St. Clair]]. Former State Representative [[Dave Argall]] won the special election of March 3 to succeed the late State Senator [[James J. Rhoades|Jim Rhoades]] and was sworn in on March 17. Jerry Knowles won the special election for Argall's seat in the 124th House district on May 19. In 2010, the GOP regained ground when Seip was defeated for reelection by Republican [[Mike Tobash]]. In 2011, the GOP reclaimed the county government.

This GOP resurgence has been followed by the subsequent election of [[Donald Trump]] in 2016, where he received 69% of the area's popular vote to [[Hillary Clinton]]'s 26.7%. Trump received the highest percentage of the vote of any Republican presidential candidate in the county's history. He subsequently received 70.6% of the vote in his triumph in 2024, making it the best performance for a Republican in the county in presidential history, and the first Republican presidential candidate to crack 70% of the vote in the county.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2016/11/08/499666514/pennsylvania-2016-presidential-and-state-election-results|title=Pennsylvania 2016 Presidential And State Election Results|website=NPR.org|date=November 8, 2016 |language=en|access-date=June 25, 2019}}</ref><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>

===Pennsylvania House of Representatives<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/home/findyourlegislator/county_list.cfm?CNTYLIST=Schuylkill|title=Find Your Legislator|last=Center|first=Legislativate Data Processing|website=The official website for the Pennsylvania General Assembly.|language=en|access-date=April 26, 2017}}</ref>===
* [[Tim Twardzik]], Republican, [[Pennsylvania House of Representatives, District 123|123rd district]]
* [[Jamie Barton (politician)|Jamie Barton]], Republican, [[Pennsylvania House of Representatives, District 124|124th district]]
* [[Joseph Kerwin (politician)|Joseph Kerwin]], Republican, [[Pennsylvania House of Representatives, District 125|125th district]]

===Pennsylvania Senate<ref name=":0" />===
* [[Dave Argall]], Republican, [[Pennsylvania Senate, District 29|29th district]]

===United States House of Representatives===
* [[Dan Meuser]], Republican, [[Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district|9th district]]

===United States Senate===
* [[John Fetterman]], [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]]
* [[Dave McCormick]], [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]