Voter registration: Pennsylvania GOP continues to gain but Democrats grow in key blue areas
We’re only about a month away now from Pennsylvania’s October 21st voter registration deadline and Republicans continue to make gains statewide. Now this won’t come as a surprise to anyone who follows my regular updates, since the Pennsylvania GOP has spent the last decade or so chipping away at the Democratic Party’s once massive registration advantage.
Just over the past month, for instance, that edge has declined from 356,207 to 343,071. This was due not so much to Democratic erosion, as the party actually added 23,711 registrants during this time, but because Republicans outpaced them by gaining 36,847 registrants.
A glance at the map, however, will reveal that amidst that overarching story, there are many tales to tell about the trends across the commonwealth. So let’s dive in.
A quick note: I explore our changing voter trends by tracking the gains one party accumulated in registrations over the other party. For example, R+500 means that the Republican Party gained a net 500 more registered voters in that county than the Democratic Party did over this period, while D+500 indicates the opposite.
https://penncapital-star.com/commentary/voter-registration-pennsylvania-gop-continues-to-gain-but-democrats-grow-in-key-blue-areas/