For the first time since 2007, there are more registered Republican voters than Democrats in Bucks County, the county’s Republican Committee recently announced.
“The Bucks County Republican Committee is very happy and proud to see that the registration numbers have now turned red in our county,” said the committee’s chairwoman Pat Poprik, in an email.
As of July 22, the number of registered Republicans exceeded the number of registered Democrats by 277.
With all eyes once again on Pennsylvania in this year’s election, Bucks County is considered a bellwether for both Democrats and Republicans.
Poprik credited the lead to “a lot of hard work by many people not only within the county, but also from other areas as well.” She said voters are changing their party or registering as new Republicans “because they believe that our country is suffering greatly from the Biden/Harris administration’s destructive policies and that the policies and positions of President Trump and the Republican Party are more in step with their own.”
This time around, Republicans, who previously decried mail-in voting are asking their supporters to use mail-in ballots.
“We will continue to encourage our voters to use mail-in ballots that are available to us,” said Poprik. “We are informing our voters that in Bucks County, mail-in ballots are very safe to use. With exceptionally long lines expected at polls in November, Poprik said, mail-in ballots will save voters time and “you will still get to safely cast your vote.”
More than 60,000 voters in Bucks County are registered as “unaffiliated” and more than 21,000 are registered with a party other than Republican or Democrat.
In November 2020, Biden won Bucks County with 51.7% of the vote to Trump’s 47.3%. In 2016, Hillary Clinton narrowly beat Trump in the county winning 48.4% to his 47.8%.
Bucks County has voted for the Democratic presidential candidate since 1992.
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