Editing Pittsburgh (section)

===Politics===
[[File:The 2020 United States Presidential Election in Pittsburgh.svg|thumb|'''2020 presidential election by precinct''' <br /> '''Biden:''' {{legend0|#b9d7ffff|40–50%}} {{legend0|#86b6f2ff|50–60%}} {{legend0|#4389e3ff|60–70%}} {{legend0|#1666cbff|70–80%}} {{legend0|#0645b4ff|80–90%}} {{legend0|#002b84ff|90–100%}}<br />'''Trump:''' {{legend0|#e27f90ff|50–60%}} {{legend0|#cc2f4aff|60–70%}}]]
{{see also|Allegheny County, Pennsylvania#Politics}}
In 2006, Council President [[Luke Ravenstahl]] was sworn in as mayor at age 26, becoming the youngest mayor in the history of any major American city. His successor, [[Bill Peduto]], was sworn in on January 6, 2014. In November 2021, Pittsburgh elected its first African-American mayor, [[Ed Gainey]].

Prior to the [[American Civil War]], Pittsburgh was strongly abolitionist. It is considered the [[History of the United States Republican Party|birthplace of the national Republican Party]],<ref>{{cite web |title=History |url=http://www.pagop.org/about/history/ |access-date=April 19, 2022 |website=Republican Party of Pennsylvania |language=en-US}}</ref> as the party held its first convention here in February 1856. From the Civil War to the 1930s, Pittsburgh was a [[United States Republican Party|Republican]] stronghold. The effects of the [[Great Depression]], combined with entrenched local GOP scandals, resulted in a shift among voters to the Democratic Party. With the exceptions of the [[Pittsburgh mayoral election, 1973|1973]] and [[Pittsburgh mayoral election, 1977|1977]] elections (where lifelong Democrats ran off the party ticket), Democrats have been elected consecutively to the mayor's office since the [[Pittsburgh mayoral election, 1933|1933 election]]. The city's ratio of party registration is 5 to 1 Democrat.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gmfus.org/template/page.cfm?page_id=481 |title=Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – Transatlantic Cities Network |publisher=The German Marshall Fund of the United States|access-date=May 6, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100619184138/http://gmfus.org/template/page.cfm?page_id=481|archive-date=June 19, 2010}}</ref>

Pittsburgh is represented in the [[Pennsylvania General Assembly]] by three [[Pennsylvania State Senate|Senate Districts]] ([[Lindsey Williams]] (D)-[[Pennsylvania's 38th Senatorial District|38]], [[Wayne D. Fontana]] (D)-[[Pennsylvania's 42nd Senatorial District|42]], and [[Jay Costa]] (D)-[[Pennsylvania's 43rd Senatorial District|43]]) and nine [[Pennsylvania House of Representatives|House Districts]] ([[Aerion Abney]]-19, [[Emily Kinkead]]-20, [[Lindsay Powell]]-21, [[Dan Frankel (American politician)|Dan Frankel]]-23, [[La'Tasha Mayes]]-24, [[Dan Deasy]]-27, [[Abigail Salisbury]]-34, [[Jessica Benham]]-36, and John Inglis-38).

Federally, Pittsburgh is part of [[Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district]], represented by [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] [[Summer Lee]] since 2023.