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==Law and government== {{PresHead|place=Carbon County, Pennsylvania|whig=no|source1=<ref name="Leip">{{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>|source2=<ref>The leading "other" candidate, [[Progressive Party (United States, 1912)|Progressive]] [[Theodore Roosevelt]], received 3,549 votes, while Socialist candidate [[Eugene V. Debs|Eugene Debs]] received 428 votes, [[Prohibition Party|Prohibition]] candidate [[Eugene W. Chafin|Eugene Chafin]] received 57 votes, and [[Socialist Labor Party of America|Socialist Labor]] candidate [[Arthur Reimer]] received 2 votes.</ref>}} <!-- PresRow should be {{PresRow|Year|Winning party|GOP/Whig vote #|Dem vote #|3rd party vote #|State}} --> {{PresRow|2024|Republican|23,708|11,394|334|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|2020|Republican|21,984|11,212|493|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|2016|Republican|18,743|8,936|1,314|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|2012|Republican|13,504|11,580|610|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|2008|Democratic|12,957|13,464|629|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|2004|Republican|12,519|12,223|301|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|2000|Democratic|9,717|10,668|892|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1996|Democratic|7,193|9,457|3,179|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1992|Democratic|7,243|9,072|5,344|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1988|Republican|10,232|9,104|211|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1984|Republican|10,701|8,836|131|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1980|Republican|10,042|8,009|1,278|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1976|Democratic|8,883|10,791|299|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1972|Republican|11,639|7,774|299|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1968|Democratic|9,954|10,634|991|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1964|Democratic|7,309|15,416|116|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1960|Republican|12,586|12,391|55|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1956|Republican|13,150|9,722|89|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1952|Republican|12,283|10,571|134|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1948|Republican|9,744|9,438|396|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1944|Democratic|9,837|11,060|73|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1940|Democratic|10,618|12,777|60|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1936|Democratic|11,298|14,179|334|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1932|Republican|9,918|9,874|649|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1928|Republican|15,047|8,010|98|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1924|Republican|10,236|5,150|3,041|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1920|Republican|7,900|5,030|416|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1916|Republican|4,275|4,099|319|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1912|Democratic|1,246|3,652|4,036|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1908|Republican|4,486|3,890|737|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1904|Republican|4,505|2,998|850|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1900|Republican|4,222|4,149|278|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1896|Republican|4,534|3,609|264|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1892|Democratic|3,179|3,541|239|Pennsylvania}} {{PresRow|1888|Democratic|3,279|3,665|233|Pennsylvania}} |} {{U.S. SenHead|place=Carbon 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|22,603|11,570|898|Pennsylvania}} {{U.S. SenFoot}} Carbon County has long been considered a bellwether county for Pennsylvania statewide elections. In gubernatorial elections, it was perfect from 1952 to 2014.<ref name="Bellwether1978">{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19781106&id=ReYdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=klgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1878,4440733 | title=Carbon County New Bellwether for Governor | work=Pittsburgh Press | date=November 6, 1978 | agency=Press Harrisburg Bureau | access-date=August 14, 2016}}</ref><ref name="Bellwether2014">{{cite news | url=http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2014/11/the_bellwethers_what_do_voters.html | title=The bellwethers: What do voters in eastern PA know that the rest don't? | work=PennLive | date=November 3, 2014 | access-date=August 14, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.electionreturns.state.pa.us/Default.aspx?EID=41&ESTID=2&CID=2302&OID=0&CDID=0&PID=0&DISTID=0&IsSpecial=0 | title=2014 General Election Official Returns | publisher=Pennsylvania Department of State | access-date=August 14, 2016}}</ref> At the presidential level, Carbon County has also been a bellwether for Pennsylvania until recently with only one miss (the [[1960 United States presidential election|1960 presidential election]]) between [[1916 United States presidential election|1916 presidential election]] and the [[2000 United States presidential election|2000 presidential election]], and with a margin within 3.5 points of the statewide margin in every election from 1940 to 2000 except 1964 (5.3% more Democratic) and 1976 (6.9% more Democratic). [[Al Gore]] carried the county in 2000. [[George W. Bush]] defeated Democrat [[John Kerry]] 49.99% to 48.81%, or a margin of 296 votes, in 2004.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/statesub.php?year=2004&fips=42025&off=0&elect=0&f=0|title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections - State Data}}</ref> Since then, Carbon County has trended Republican relative to the state as a whole; in the [[2008 United States presidential election|2008 presidential election]], [[John McCain]] outperformed in Carbon County by 8.5% relative to the state. In the [[2012 United States presidential election|2012 presidential election]], [[Mitt Romney]] outperformed by 12.9% relative to the state. In the [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 presidential election]], [[Donald Trump]] won the county overwhelmingly with 65.4% of the vote, the largest presidential victory in the county of any presidential candidate since [[Lyndon Johnson]]'s landslide in [[1964 United States presidential election|1964 presidential election]].<ref name="Leip"/> === Voter registration === As of February 7, 2024, there were 43,217 registered voters in the county. There are 21,871 (50.61%) registered [[Republican Party (United States)|Republicans]], 14,592 (33.76%) registered [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrats]], 4,723 (10.93%) voters registered [[Independent (United States)|non-affiliated]] voters, and 2,031 (4.70%) voters registered to [[Third party (United States)|other parties]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pennsylvania Department of State |date=February 5, 2024 |title=Voter registration statistics by county |url=https://www.dos.pa.gov/VotingElections/OtherServicesEvents/VotingElectionStatistics/Pages/VotingElectionStatistics.aspx |access-date=February 7, 2024 |website=dos.pa.gov}}</ref> {{Pie chart|thumb=right|value1=50.61|value2=33.76|value3=10.93|value4=4.70|label4=[[Third party (United States)|Other Parties]]|label3=[[Independent (United States)|Independent]]|label2=[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]|label1=[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]|caption=Chart of Voter Registration|color1={{party color|Republican Party (United States)}}|color2={{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}|color3={{party color|Independent (United States)}}|color4={{party color|Green Party (United States)}}}} ===County commissioners=== *Wayne Nothstein, Republican *Mike Sofranko, chairman *Rocky Ahner, Democratic<ref name="CountyCommision">{{cite web|url=http://www.carboncounty.com/index.php/17-department/36-commissioners|title=Carbon County Commissioners|access-date=August 14, 2016}}</ref> ===State Senate=== * [[John Yudichak]], [[Independent politician|Independent]], [[Pennsylvania's 14th Senatorial District]] * [[Dave Argall]], [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]], [[Pennsylvania's 29th Senatorial District]] ===State House of Representatives=== * [[Doyle Heffley]], [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]], [[Pennsylvania's 122nd Representative District]] ===United States House of Representatives=== * [[Ryan Mackenzie]], [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]], [[Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district]] ===United States Senate=== *[[John Fetterman]], [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] *[[David McCormick|Dave McCormick]], [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
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