Partisan identification in the electorate
As of early fall 2016 registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by 919,000 in Pennsylvania, with 4.1 million Democrats and 3.2 million Republicans. 452,669 voters were registered with non-major parties and 702,482 defined themselves as non-affiliated.
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Partisan affiliation of elected officials
The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania:
The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:
Pennsylvania currently has 20 electoral votes based on their 18 seats in the United States House of Representatives and 2 United States Senators. The table below indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes for the years in which a presidential election was held.
The parties are as follows: Anti-Administration (AA); Anti-Masonic (AM); Democratic (D); Democratic-Republican (DR); Federalist (F); Jacksonian (J); no party (N), or unknown; National Union (NU); National Republican (NR); Opposition (O); Pro-Administration (PA); Progressive (P); Republican (R); Whig (W); and a tie or coalition within a group of elected officials.