Editing Lancaster, Pennsylvania (section)

===Federal===
While Lancaster County as a whole tilts heavily Republican, the city of Lancaster leans heavily Democratic. Registered Democrats held a 13,000 [[voter registration]] advantage over registered Republicans in the city as of June 2009.<ref name=lne>{{cite news|first=Bernard |last=Harris |title=It's official: Smithgall running for mayor again |url=http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/239278 |work=[[Lancaster New Era]] |date=2009-06-26 |access-date=2009-10-31 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090629171028/http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/239278 |archive-date=2009-06-29 }}</ref> [[President of the United States|U.S. presidential candidate]] [[Barack Obama]] easily won the city of Lancaster, receiving 76% of the vote during the [[2008 United States presidential election|2008 presidential election]].<ref name=lne2>{{cite news|title=Smithgall 'probably' running for mayor again |url=http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/237871 |work=[[Lancaster New Era]] |date=2009-05-21 |access-date=2009-10-31 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090605234558/http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/237871 |archive-date=2009-06-05 }}</ref>

Federally, Lancaster is part of [[Pennsylvania's 11th congressional district]], represented by Republican [[Lloyd Smucker]] of nearby [[West Lampeter Township, Pennsylvania|West Lampeter Township]].

The state's senior member of the United States Senate is Democrat [[Bob Casey Jr.|Bob Casey]], first elected in 2006. The state's junior member of the United States Senate is Democrat [[John Fetterman]], first elected in 2022. The Governor of Pennsylvania is Democrat [[Josh Shapiro]], first elected in 2022. Additionally, the city of Lancaster is the headquarters of the [[Constitution Party (United States)|Constitution Party]].

Lancaster was home to Democrat [[James Buchanan]], the fifteenth president of the United States. Buchanan arrived in Lancaster in 1809 to practice law. He took up residence near the courthouse on N. Duke Street. In 1848 he purchased [[Wheatland (James Buchanan House)|Wheatland]], a Federal style mansion in the suburbs. He was elected president in 1856.<ref name=donovanbuch>{{cite book|last=Donovan|first=Sandra|title=James Buchanan|year=2005|publisher=Lerner Publications|isbn=978-0-8225-1399-5|page=21|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1zmOnLFwbaQC&q=%22James+Buchanan%22+Lancaster&pg=PA21}}</ref>