final PA registration statistics

[JustinL]

The Pennsylvania Department of State has released final voter registration statistics for the primary, available here.

As of 04-17-2008, there were 4,200,109 registered Democrats, an increase of 316,731 (8.2%) since 11-06-2007. Democrats now make up 50.4% of all registered voters, compared to 38.3% for Republicans.

The counties with the biggest increases in the number of Democrats were:

1. 50,011 - Philadelphia
   
2. 30,845 - Montgomery (Philadelphia area)
   
3. 25,390 - Allegheny (includes Pittsburgh)
   
4. 24,518 - Delaware (Philadelphia area)
   
5. 20,998 - Chester (Philadelphia area)
   
6. 19,836 - Bucks (Philadelphia area)
   
7. 13,478 - Lancaster (south-central PA)
   
8. 9,820 - York (south-central PA)
   
9. 9,042 - Dauphin (includes Harrisburg)
   
10. 8,598 - Lehigh (includes Allentown)
    

The counties with the biggest percentage increases were:

1. 27.1 - Centre (central PA, includes Penn State)
   
2. 22.7 - Chester (Philadelphia area)
   
3. 18.5 - Delaware (Philadelphia area)
   
4. 17.3 - Union (central PA, includes Bucknell University)
   
5. 16.7 - Cumberland (Harrisburg area)
   
6. 16.5 - Lancaster (south-central PA)
   
7. 14.5 - Lebanon (Harrisburg area)
   
8. 14.2 - Montgomery (Philadelphia area)
   
9. 12.8 - Dauphin (includes Harrisburg)
   
10. 12.2 - Perry (Harrisburg area)
    

Of the 218,923 new voters who registered between 01-01-2007 and 04-17-2007, 152,775 (69.8%) registered as Democrats. During the same period 164,026 previously registered voters changed their party to Democratic, outnumbering those who changed their party to Republican 11 to 1.

[grantcart]

1. tks

[Scurrilous]

2. Good news.

K & R :thumbsup:

[TacticalPeek]

3. Poor Rs.

:cry:

[SeattleGirl]

4. A w00t!!! for Pennsylvania!!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

Let's take this country back!

[Emit]

5. Wow! And I just posted this

"In PA ... more people have registered to vote in the Democratic Primary

than voted in the last Presidential election in both parties..."

If we can trust Cokie Roberts: http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2008/04/15/1/a-conversation-with-cokie-roberts

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5575931

Time to see if Cokie is accurate

[ecdab]

6. Holy mother of pearl - that's outstanding!

[MH1]

7. 5 of the top 6 gainers (raw numbers) are Philadelphia area.

That is Obama's strongest area of the state.

[Zachstar]

8. He pulled 35 thousand in a rally yesterday! So hopefully this is a great sign!!

[TacticalPeek]

9. TYPO? "new voters who registered between 01-01-2007 and 04-17-2007"

Reckon that's supposed to be 2008 instead? Seems reasonable, why else cut off at 4/17?

[JustinL]

11. yes it is, thanks

Four months into the year, and I'm still doing that.

[phrigndumass]

10. Good info, nice and meaty. Thanks JustinL

:kick: :thumbsup:

[krawhitham]

12. so 164,026 Limbaugh rethugs voting for Hill?

[NJSecularist]

13. It's good to see that the margins of Democrats are increasing in Philly..

Good news for the general election.

[JimGinPA]

14. I Know We Registered A Lot Of New Democrats Here...

And a lot of independents switched too. I hadn't heard of the Clinton campaign doing anything here.

[AllentownJake]

15. My Mother

Was one of the 8,598 who registerd in Lehigh. She used to be a Republican but she wears her Veterans for Obama pin proudly (she was an Army nurse in Vietnam) Ashamed she decided on Obama before I did. She heard him speak on TV in 2007 and she said that is our next President. I was on the fence between Clinton and Obama till September 2007.

[Frank Booth]

16. Wow. This is great news. I've been thinking Obama probably won't get

within single digits of her, but after seeing this I think he probably will make it that close. You have to think a large majority of these new Dems is going to be voting Obama.