Under 3 in 10 registered Republican and Democratic voters in Pennsylvania cast a vote in the state’s 2024 presidential primary, according to unofficial data compiled by PoliticsPA.
Compiling available data from county election websites and/or the PA Department of State, 28 percent of eligible registered members of those parties turned out on Tuesday.
Topping the list were five smaller counties in the Commonwealth – Clarion (37.83%), Forest (37.58%), Sullivan (36.11%), Cameron (36.02%) and Wyoming (34.55%).
Of those counties with more than 100,000 registered GOP or Democratic voters, six topped the 30 percent mark – Cumberland, Bucks, Allegheny, Butler, Westmoreland and Dauphin. Each of those counties had a well-publicized contested primary for voters to consider, including congressional races in PA-01, PA-10, PA-12 and PA-14, while Butler had a contested state House primary.
Janelle Stelson outdistanced five other challengers for the Democratic nomination for Congress in PA-10 in Cumberland and Dauphin; Rep. Summer Lee (D-12) defeated Bhavini Patel to earn the Democratic nomination in PA-12 in Allegheny County, while Westmoreland’s PA-14 finds Chris Dziados in the lead over Ken Bach.
The Commonwealth’s largest county – Philadelphia – had a turnout of just 20.51% of Republicans and Democrats.
CORRECTION: A previous posting showed a bar chart that showed turnout that included all registered voters in the county. This chart reflects only those Republicans and Democrats eligible to vote in the primary.
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Are you figuring all registered voters into percentage turnout? If so, this is misleading. In Fayette County, 18,892 Republicans and Democrats voted out of a registration total of 70,106 for a turnout percentage of 26.97%. It’s still a sad number but better than what you reported.