Editing Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (section)

===Political party affiliation===
{{PresHead|place=Lancaster County, Pennsylvania|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>|source2=<ref>The leading "other" candidate, [[Progressive Party (United States, 1912)|Progressive]] [[Theodore Roosevelt]], received 12,031 votes, while Socialist candidate [[Eugene V. Debs|Eugene Debs]] received 687 votes, [[Prohibition Party|Prohibition]] candidate [[Eugene W. Chafin|Eugene Chafin]] received 310 votes, and [[Socialist Labor Party of America|Socialist Labor]] candidate [[Arthur Reimer]] received 12 votes.</ref>}}
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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|166,261|120,119|4,292|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|160,209|115,847|5,319|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|137,914|91,093|15,825|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|130,669|88,481|4,201|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|126,568|99,586|3,095|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|145,591|74,328|1,453|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|115,900|54,968|4,499|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|92,875|49,120|13,291|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|88,447|44,255|27,478|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|96,979|38,982|1,068|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|99,090|31,308|618|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|79,963|30,026|8,908|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|72,106|35,533|2,037|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|81,036|24,223|1,879|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|69,953|29,870|8,484|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|52,243|53,041|224|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|78,390|33,233|266|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|69,026|26,538|237|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|64,193|28,146|382|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1948|Republican|46,306|21,308|885|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1944|Republican|44,888|27,353|432|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1940|Republican|44,939|32,210|269|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1936|Republican|42,272|38,454|1,547|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1932|Republican|34,502|24,406|2,111|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|55,530|12,146|516|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|42,787|12,091|3,156|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|29,549|9,521|1,472|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1916|Republican|20,292|10,016|1,688|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1912|Republican|12,668|8,574|13,040|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1908|Republican|23,523|8,109|1,299|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1904|Republican|26,083|7,092|902|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1900|Republican|23,230|8,437|701|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1896|Republican|24,337|8,145|1,008|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1892|Republican|20,126|10,326|770|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1888|Republican|21,976|10,495|545|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1884|Republican|19,848|9,953|340|Pennsylvania}}
{{PresRow|1880|Republican|19,489|10,789|120|Pennsylvania}}
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{{U.S. SenHead|place=Lancaster 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|162,105|118,580|7,668|Pennsylvania}}
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Lancaster County was the home of the final pre-[[American Civil War]] U.S. President, James Buchanan, a Democrat.  Since the Civil War, however, Lancaster County has been a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] stronghold. The GOP controls the vast majority of county and municipal elected offices in Lancaster County.<ref name=lancnews>{{cite news|first=Dave|last=Pidgeon|title=Democrats celebrate registration gains:Numbers here top 100,000 for 1st time|url=http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/227869|work=Intelligencer Journal|date=September 26, 2008|access-date=October 17, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130127095412/http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/227869|archive-date=January 27, 2013}}</ref> Specifically, the row offices and all but one county commission seat are held by Republicans, and the GOP holds all but two state legislative seats covering the county. Republicans also hold a majority of registered voters in the county.

In September 2008, the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] reached the benchmark of 100,000 registered voters for the first time in the county's history.<ref name=lancnews/><ref>{{cite news|title=Lancaster Dems Announce 100,000th Registration|url=http://www.solanconews.com/Gov/Articles/2008/080930_lancdems.htm|work=[[Solanco News]]|date=September 30, 2008|access-date=October 17, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150604061533/http://www.solanconews.com/Gov/Articles/2008/080930_lancdems.htm|archive-date=June 4, 2015}}</ref> The party had just 82,171 registered Democrats in 2004.<ref name=lancnews/> {{As of|2008}}, the ratio of Republicans to Democrats in Lancaster County now stands at 1.8 Republicans to 1 Democrat, down from a 3–1 advantage for the Republicans in the late 1990s.<ref name=lancnews/> Even with these gains, the county is still powerfully Republican downballot; the only real pockets of Democratic influence are in the city of Lancaster. Reflecting this, the only elected Democrats representing a significant portion of the county at the state or federal level hold state house seats anchored in Lancaster city and its closest-in suburbs. Prior to a 2025 special election, Republicans had exclusively represented the county in the [[Pennsylvania Senate]] since 1889.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Levy |first=Marc |last2=Scolforo |first2=Mark |date=March 26, 2025 |title=Democrat James Andrew Malone scores an upset win in a Pennsylvania Senate special election |url=https://www.abc27.com/pennsylvania-politics/democrat-james-andrew-malone-scores-an-upset-win-in-a-pennsylvania-senate-special-election/ |website=abc27}}</ref>

Lancaster County has only ever voted for a Democratic presidential nominee once since [[James Buchanan]] in 1856, a resident of the city of Lancaster.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://geoelections.free.fr/USA/elec_comtes/1856.htm|title=Presidential election of 1856 – Map by counties|website=geoelections.free.fr}}</ref> In 1964, [[Lyndon Johnson]] carried Lancaster County as part of his 44-state landslide, winning by 798 votes, less than a single percentage point.  [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] failed to carry the county during any of his four successful runs for president, coming within 4,000 votes of carrying it in his 46-state landslide of 1936. In 2008, [[Barack Obama]] became the first Democrat to garner 40 percent of the county's vote since Johnson, and the second since Franklin D. Roosevelt. [[Donald Trump]] earned 56 percent of the vote in both campaigns, with [[Joe Biden]] becoming the third Democrat in 80 years to win 40 percent of the county's vote.

According to the Secretary of State's office, Republicans hold a majority of the voters in Lancaster County.
{| class=wikitable
! colspan = 6 | Lancaster County Voter Registration Statistics as of October 28, 2024<ref name="Voter Registration">{{cite web |url=https://www.dos.pa.gov/VotingElections/OtherServicesEvents/VotingElectionStatistics/Pages/VotingElectionStatistics.aspx |format=XLS |title=September 2022 Voter Registration Statistics |access-date=September 21, 2023 |author=Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of State }}</ref>
|-
! colspan = 2 | Political Party
! Total Voters
! Percentage
|-
| {{party color cell|Republican Party (United States)}}
| [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| align = center | 187,128
| align = center | 51.13%
|-
| {{party color cell|Democratic Party (United States)}} 
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
| align = center | 114,789
| align = center | 31.36%
|-
| {{party color cell|Independent Party (United States)}}
| No party affiliation
| align = center | 46,815
| align = center | 12.79%
|-
| {{party color cell|Other party (United States)}}
| Minor parties 
| align = center | 17,276
| align = center | 4.72%
|-
! colspan = 2 | Total
! align = center | 366,008
! align = center | 100.00%
|}