Political party strength in Pennsylvania
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:
- State Senate
- State House of Representatives
- State delegation to the United States Senate
- State delegation to the United States House of Representatives
For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes.
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.
| Year | Executive offices | State Legislature | United States Congress | Electoral College votes | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Governor | Lieutenant Governor | Attorney General | Auditor | Treasurer | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class I) | U.S. Senator (Class III) | U.S. House | ||
| 1777 | [1] | [2] | [3] | David Rittenhouse | began in 1789 | ||||||
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| 1789 | Christian Febiger | William Maclay (AA) | Robert Morris (PA) | 6PA, 2AA | George Washington (N) and John Adams (F)  | ||||||
| 1790 | |||||||||||
| 1791 | Thomas Mifflin (F) | [4] | vacant | 4PA, 4AA | |||||||
| 1792 | |||||||||||
| 1793 | 8AA, 5PA | ||||||||||
| 1794 | Albert Gallatin (AA) | ||||||||||
| James Ross (F) | |||||||||||
| 1795 | William Bingham (F) | 8DR, 5F | |||||||||
| 1796 | 7DR, 6F | Thomas Jefferson (DR)  and John Adams (F) | |||||||||
| 1797 | Peter Baynton | 8DR, 5F | |||||||||
| 1798 | |||||||||||
| 1799 | 9DR, 4F | ||||||||||
| 1800 | Thomas McKean (DR) | Thomas Jefferson (DR) and John Adams (F) | |||||||||
| 1801 | Jacob Carpenter | Peter Muhlenberg (DR) | 10DR, 3F | ||||||||
| George Logan (DR) | |||||||||||
| 1802 | Isaac Weaver | ||||||||||
| 1803 | Samuel Maclay (DR) | 18DR | |||||||||
| 1804 | Thomas Jefferson and George Clinton (DR) | ||||||||||
| 1805 | 17DR, 1F | ||||||||||
| 1806 | |||||||||||
| 1807 | William Findlay (DR) | Andrew Gregg (DR) | 15DR, 3F | ||||||||
| 1808 | James Madison and George Clinton (DR) | ||||||||||
| 1809 | Simon Snyder (DR) | Michael Leib (DR) | 16DR, 2F | ||||||||
| 1810 | |||||||||||
| 1811 | 17DR, 1F | ||||||||||
| 1812 | James Madison and Elbridge Gerry (DR) | ||||||||||
| 1813 | Abner Lacock (DR) | 22DR, 1F | |||||||||
| 1814 | Jonathan Roberts (DR) | 21DR, 2F | |||||||||
| 1815 | 19DR, 4F | ||||||||||
| 1816 | James Monroe and Daniel D. Tompkins (DR) | ||||||||||
| 1817 | R. M. Crain | ||||||||||
| 1818 | William Findlay (DR) | ||||||||||
| 1819 | Walter Lowrie (DR) | ||||||||||
| 1820 | John B. Trevor | 18DR, 5F | |||||||||
| 1821 | Joseph Hiester (DR) | William Clark | vacant | 15DR, 8F | |||||||
| 1822 | William Findlay (DR) | 16DR, 7F | |||||||||
| 1823 | 20DR, 6F | ||||||||||
| 1824 | John Andrew Shulze (DR) | Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun (DR) | |||||||||
| 1825 | William Marks (NR) | 14J, 11DR, 1F | |||||||||
| 1826 | 17J, 9DR | ||||||||||
| 1827 | Alexander Mahon | Isaac D. Barnard (J) | 22J, 3DR, 1NR | ||||||||
| 1828 | Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun (D) | ||||||||||
| 1829 | 24J, 1AM, 1NR | ||||||||||
| 1830 | George Wolf (J) | ||||||||||
| 1831 | William Wilkins (J) | 17J, 7AM, 2NR | |||||||||
| 1832 | George M. Dallas (J) | Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren (D) | |||||||||
| 1833 | Samuel McKean (J) | 14J, 10AM, 4NR | |||||||||
| 1834 | |||||||||||
| 1835 | Joseph Lawrence | James Buchanan (D) | 17J, 7AM, 4NR | ||||||||
| 1836 | Joseph Ritner (AM) | Daniel Sturgeon (D) | Martin Van Buren and Richard Mentor Johnson (D) | ||||||||
| 1837 | 16D, 7AM, 3W, 2J | ||||||||||
| 1838 | |||||||||||
| 1839 | David R. Porter (D) | vacant | 17D, 6W, 5AM | ||||||||
| 1840 | Almon H. Reed | Daniel Sturgeon (D) | William Henry Harrison and John Tyler (W) | ||||||||
| 1841 | John Gilmore (D) | 15D, 13W | |||||||||
| 1842 | Job Mann (D) | ||||||||||
| 1843 | 12D, 12W | ||||||||||
| 1844 | 13W, 11D | James K. Polk and George M. Dallas (D) | |||||||||
| 1845 | Francis R. Shunk (D) | James Ross Snowden | Simon Cameron (D) | 12D, 10W, 2A | |||||||
| 1846 | |||||||||||
| 1847 | John Banks | 16W, 7D, 1A | |||||||||
| 1848 | Arnold Plumber | 15W, 8D, 1A | Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore (W) | ||||||||
| William F. Johnston (W) | |||||||||||
| 1849 | Gideon J. Ball | James Cooper (W) | 11W, 11D, 1A, 1FS | ||||||||
| 1850 | John M. Bickel | ||||||||||
| 1851 | Ephraim Banks | Richard Brodhead (D) | 15D, 9W | ||||||||
| 1852 | William Bigler (D) | Franklin Pierce and William R. King (D) | |||||||||
| 1853 | 16D, 9W | ||||||||||
| 1854 | Joseph Bailey (D) | ||||||||||
| 1855 | James Pollock (W) | Eli Slifer | vacant | 13O, 7D, 3W, 1R, 1A | |||||||
| 1856 | Henry S. Magraw | William Bigler (D) | James Buchanan and John C. Breckinridge (D) | ||||||||
| 1857 | Jacob Fryle, Jr. | Simon Cameron (R) | 15D, 10R | ||||||||
| 1858 | William F. Packer (D) | 14D, 11R | |||||||||
| 1859 | Eli Slifer | 20R, 5D | |||||||||
| 1860 | Thomas E. Cochran | Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin (R) | |||||||||
| 1861 | Andrew Gregg Curtin (R) | Henry Dunning Moore (R) | David Wilmot (R) | Edgar Cowan (R) | 19R, 6D | ||||||
| 1862 | 17R, 8D | ||||||||||
| 1863 | Isaac Slenker | William V. McGrath | Charles R. Buckalew (D) | 12R, 12D | |||||||
| 1864 | Henry Dunning Moore (R) | Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson (NU) | |||||||||
| 1865 | William H. Kemble | 15R, 9D | |||||||||
| 1866 | John F. Hartranft (R) | 16R, 8D | |||||||||
| 1867 | John W. Geary (R) | Simon Cameron (R) | 18R, 6D | ||||||||
| 1868 | W. W. Irwin | Ulysses S. Grant and Schuyler Colfax (R) | |||||||||
| 1869 | Robert W. Mackey | John Scott (R) | 16R, 8D | ||||||||
| 1870 | W. W. Irwin | 18R, 6D | |||||||||
| 1871 | Robert W. Mackey | 13R, 11D | |||||||||
| 1872 | Ulysses S. Grant and Henry Wilson (R) | ||||||||||
| C. D. Brigham | |||||||||||
| Harrison Allen (R) | |||||||||||
| 1873 | John F. Hartranft (R) | 22R, 5D | |||||||||
| 1874 | |||||||||||
| 1875 | John Latta (R) | Justus F. Temple | William A. Wallace (D) | 17D, 10R | |||||||
| 1876 | Henry Rawle | 18D, 9R | Rutherford B. Hayes and William A. Wheeler (R) | ||||||||
| 1877 | James Donald Cameron (R) | 17R, 10D | |||||||||
| 1878 | William P. Schell | Amos C. Noyes | |||||||||
| 1879 | Henry M. Hoyt (R) | Charles Warren Stone (R) | 17R, 8D, 2GB | ||||||||
| 1880 | Samuel Butler | James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur (R) | |||||||||
| 1881 | John A. Lemon | John I. Mitchell (R) | 18R, 7D, 2GB | ||||||||
| 1882 | Silas M. Bailey | ||||||||||
| 1883 | Robert E. Pattison (D) | Chauncey Forward Black (D) | 15R, 12D, 1GB | ||||||||
| 1884 | Jerome B. Niles | William Livsey | James G. Blaine and John A. Logan (R) | ||||||||
| 1885 | 20R, 8D | ||||||||||
| 1886 | Matthew S. Quay (R) | ||||||||||
| 1887 | James A. Beaver (R) | William T. Davies (R) | A. Wilson Norris[5] | William Livsey | Matthew S. Quay (R) | ||||||
| 1888 | William B. Hart | Benjamin Harrison and Levi P. Morton (R) | |||||||||
| Thomas McCamant | |||||||||||
| 1889 | William Livsey | 21 R, 7D | |||||||||
| 1890 | Henry K. Boyer | ||||||||||
| 1891 | Robert E. Pattison (D) | Louis Arthur Watres (D) | 18R, 10D | ||||||||
| 1892 | David McMurtrie Gregg (R) | John W. Morrison | 17R, 11D | Benjamin Harrison and Whitelaw Reid (R) | |||||||
| 1893 | 20R, 10D | ||||||||||
| 1894 | Samuel M. Jackson | ||||||||||
| 1895 | Daniel H. Hastings (R) | Walter Lyon (R) | Amos H. Mylin | 28R, 2D | |||||||
| 1896 | Benjamin J. Haywood | William McKinley and Garret Hobart (R) | |||||||||
| 1897 | Boies Penrose[5] (R) | 27R, 3D | |||||||||
| 1898 | Levi G. McCauley (R) | James S. Beacom (R) | |||||||||
| 1899 | William A. Stone (R) | John P. S. Gobin (R) | vacant | 20R, 10D | |||||||
| 1900 | James E. Barnett (R) | William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt (R) | |||||||||
| 1901 | Edmund B. Hardenbergh (R) | Matthew S. Quay (R) | 26R, 4D | ||||||||
| 1902 | Frank G. Harris (R) | ||||||||||
| 1903 | Samuel W. Pennypacker (R) | William M. Brown (R) | 28R, 4D | ||||||||
| 1904 | William P. Snyder (R) | William L. Mathues (R) | 29R, 3D | Theodore Roosevelt and Charles W. Fairbanks (R) | |||||||
| Philander C. Knox (R) | |||||||||||
| 1905 | 31R, 1D | ||||||||||
| 1906 | William H. Berry (D) | ||||||||||
| 1907 | Edwin Sydney Stuart (R) | Robert S. Murphy (R) | Robert K. Young (R) | 25R, 7D | |||||||
| 1908 | John O. Sheatz (R) | William Howard Taft and James S. Sherman (R) | |||||||||
| 1909 | George T. Oliver (R) | 27R, 5D | |||||||||
| 1910 | A.E. Sisson (R) | ||||||||||
| 1911 | John K. Tener (R) | John Merriman Reynolds (R) | Charles Frederick Wright (R) | 23R, 9D | |||||||
| 1912 | 24R, 8D | Theodore Roosevelt and Hiram Johnson (P) | |||||||||
| 1913 | Archibald W. Powell (R) | Robert K. Young (R) | 22R, 12D, 2P | ||||||||
| 1914 | |||||||||||
| 1915 | Martin Grove Brumbaugh (R) | Frank B. McClain (R) | 30R, 6D | ||||||||
| 1916 | Charles Evans Hughes and Charles W. Fairbanks (R) | ||||||||||
| 1917 | Charles A. Snyder (R) | Harmon M. Kephart (R) | Philander C. Knox (R) | 29R, 6D, 1P | |||||||
| 1918 | 28R, 7D, 1P | ||||||||||
| 1919 | William Cameron Sproul (R) | Edward E. Beidleman (R) | 29R, 7D | ||||||||
| 1920 | 30R, 6D | Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge (R) | |||||||||
| 1921 | Samuel S. Lewis (R) | Charles A. Snyder (R) | 35R, 1D | ||||||||
| William E. Crow (R) | |||||||||||
| 1922 | George Wharton Pepper (R) | ||||||||||
| David A. Reed (R) | |||||||||||
| 1923 | Gifford Pinchot (R) | David J. Davis (R) | 30R, 6D | ||||||||
| 1924 | Calvin Coolidge and Charles G. Dawes (R) | ||||||||||
| 1925 | Edward Martin (R) | Samuel S. Lewis (R) | 36R | ||||||||
| 1926 | |||||||||||
| 1927 | John Stuchell Fisher (R) | Arthur James (R) | William Scott Vare (R) | 34R, 2D | |||||||
| 1928 | Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis (R) | ||||||||||
| 1929 | Charles A. Waters (R) | Edward Martin (R) | 35R, 1D | ||||||||
| 1930 | Joseph R. Grundy (R) | 36R | |||||||||
| 1931 | Gifford Pinchot (R) | Edward C. Shannon (R) | James J. Davis (R) | 33R, 3D | |||||||
| 1932 | Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis (R) | ||||||||||
| 1933 | Frank E. Baldwin (R) | Charles A. Waters (R) | 23R, 11D | ||||||||
| 1934 | 22R, 12D | ||||||||||
| 1935 | George Howard Earle III (D) | Thomas Kennedy (D) | Joseph F. Guffey (D) | 23D, 11R | |||||||
| 1936 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner (D) | ||||||||||
| 1937 | Warren R. Roberts (D) | F. Clair Ross (D) | 27D, 7R | ||||||||
| 1938 | |||||||||||
| 1939 | Arthur James (R) | Samuel S. Lewis (R) | 19R, 15D | ||||||||
| 1940 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Henry A. Wallace (D) | ||||||||||
| 1941 | F. Clair Ross (D) | G. Howard Wagner (R) | 19D, 15R | ||||||||
| 1942 | |||||||||||
| 1943 | Edward Martin (R) | John C. Bell, Jr. (R) | 20R, 13D | ||||||||
| 1944 | 21R, 12D | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman | |||||||||
| 1945 | Ted A. Rosenberg | Ramsey S. Black (D) | Francis J. Myers (D) | 18R, 15D | |||||||
| G. Howard Wagner (R) | |||||||||||
| 1946 | 19R, 14D | ||||||||||
| 1947 | John C. Bell, Jr. (R) | vacant | Edward Martin (R) | 28R, 5D | |||||||
| James H. Duff (R) | Daniel B. Strickler (R) | ||||||||||
| 1948 | Thomas E. Dewey and Earl Warren (R) | ||||||||||
| 1949 | Weldon B. Heyburn (R) | Charles R. Barber (R) | 17R, 16D | ||||||||
| 1950 | |||||||||||
| 1951 | John S. Fine (R) | Lloyd H. Wood (R) | James H. Duff (R) | 20R, 13D | |||||||
| 1952 | Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon (R) | ||||||||||
| 1953 | Charles R. Barber (R) | Weldon B. Heyburn (R) | 19R, 11D[6] | ||||||||
| 1954 | |||||||||||
| 1955 | George M. Leader (D) | Roy E. Furman (D) | 16R, 14D | ||||||||
| 1956 | |||||||||||
| 1957 | Charles C. Smith (R) | Robert F. Kent (R) | Joseph S. Clark (D) | 17R, 13D | |||||||
| 1958 | |||||||||||
| 1959 | David L. Lawrence (D) | John Morgan Davis (D) | Hugh Scott (R) | 16D, 14R | |||||||
| 1960 | John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson (D) | ||||||||||
| 1961 | Thomas Z. Minehart (D) | Grace M. Sloan (D) | 16R, 14D | ||||||||
| 1962 | |||||||||||
| 1963 | William Scranton (R) | Raymond P. Shafer (R) | 14R, 13D[7] | ||||||||
| 1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson and Hubert Humphrey (D) | ||||||||||
| 1965 | Grace M. Sloan (D) | Thomas Z. Minehart (D) | 15D, 12R | ||||||||
| 1966 | |||||||||||
| 1967 | Raymond P. Shafer (R) | Raymond J. Broderick (R) | 14D, 13R | ||||||||
| 1968 | Hubert Humphrey and Edmund Muskie (D) | ||||||||||
| 1969 | Bob Casey (D) | Grace M. Sloan (D) | Richard S. Schweiker (R) | ||||||||
| 1970 | |||||||||||
| 1971 | Milton Shapp (D) | Ernest P. Kline (D) | |||||||||
| 1972 | Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew (R) | ||||||||||
| 1973 | 13D, 12R[8] | ||||||||||
| 1974 | |||||||||||
| 1975 | 14D, 11R | ||||||||||
| 1976 | Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale (R) | ||||||||||
| 1977 | Al Benedict (D) | Robert E. Casey (D) | H. John Heinz III (R)[5] | 17D, 8R | |||||||
| 1978 | |||||||||||
| 1979 | Dick Thornburgh (R) | William Scranton, III (R) | 15D, 10R | ||||||||
| 1980 | Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush (R) | ||||||||||
| 1981 | LeRoy S. Zimmerman (R) | Budd Dwyer (R)[5] | Arlen Specter (R) | 13D, 12R | |||||||
| 1982 | |||||||||||
| 1983 | 13D, 10R[9] | ||||||||||
| 1984 | |||||||||||
| 1985 | Donald A. Bailey (D) | ||||||||||
| 1986 | |||||||||||
| 1987 | Bob Casey (D) | Mark Singel (D) | G. Davis Greene (D) | 12D, 11R | |||||||
| 1988 | George H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle (R) | ||||||||||
| 1989 | Ernie Preate (R) | Barbara Hafer (R) | Catherine Baker Knoll (D) | ||||||||
| 1990 | |||||||||||
| 1991 | 12R, 11D | ||||||||||
| Harris Wofford (D)[10] | |||||||||||
| 1992 | R majority | D majority | Bill Clinton and Al Gore (D) | ||||||||
| 1993 | D majority | 11D, 10R[11] | |||||||||
| 1994 | R majority | ||||||||||
| 1995 | Tom Ridge (R) | Mark S. Schweiker (R) | R majority | Rick Santorum (R) | |||||||
| Tom Corbett (R) | |||||||||||
| 1996 | |||||||||||
| 1997 | D. Michael Fisher (R) | Bob Casey, Jr. (D) | Barbara Hafer (R) | ||||||||
| 1998 | |||||||||||
| 1999 | |||||||||||
| 2000 | Al Gore and Joe Lieberman (D) | ||||||||||
| 2001 | 30R, 20D | 104R, 99R | 11R, 10D | ||||||||
| Mark S. Schweiker (R)[12] | Robert Jubelirer (R)[13] | ||||||||||
| 2002 | |||||||||||
| 2003 | Ed Rendell (D) | Catherine Baker Knoll (D)[5] | Barbara Hafer (D) | 29R, 21D | 109D, 94R | 12R, 7D[14] | |||||
| 2004 | John Kerry and John Edwards (D) | ||||||||||
| Jerry Pappert (R) | |||||||||||
| 2005 | Tom Corbett (R) | Jack Wagner (D) | Bob Casey, Jr. (D)[15] | 30R, 20D | 110R, 93D | ||||||
| 2006 | |||||||||||
| 2007 | Robin Wiessmann (D)[16] | 29R, 21D | 102D, 101R[17] | Bob Casey, Jr. (D) | 11D, 8R | ||||||
| 2008 | Barack Obama and Joe Biden (D) | ||||||||||
| Joseph B. Scarnati (R)[13] | |||||||||||
| 2009 | Robert McCord (D) | 30R, 20D | 104D, 99R | 12D, 7R | |||||||
| Arlen Specter (D)[18] | |||||||||||
| 2010 | |||||||||||
| 2011 | Tom Corbett (R) | Jim Cawley (R) | Linda L. Kelly (R)[19] | 112R, 91D | Pat Toomey (R) | 12R, 7D | |||||
| 2012 | |||||||||||
| 2013 | Kathleen Kane (D) | Eugene DePasquale (D) | 27R, 23D | 111R, 92D | 13R, 5D | ||||||
| 2014 | |||||||||||
| 2015 | Tom Wolf (D) | Michael J. Stack III (D) | 30R, 20D | 120R, 83D | |||||||
| Year | Governor | Lieutenant Governor | Attorney General | Auditor | Treasurer | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class I) | U.S. Senator (Class III) | U.S. House | Electoral College votes |
| Executive offices | State Legislature | United States Congress | |||||||||
Notes
- ↑ From 1777–1790, Pennsylvania had a series of presidents and vice presidents of The Supreme Council.
- ↑ Not an elected office until 1980.
- ↑ Became an elected office in 1850.
- ↑ Office created in 1873 and first filled in 1875.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Died in office.
- ↑ Districts 31, 32, and 33 eliminated in 1953.
- ↑ Districts 28, 29, and 30 eliminated in 1963.
- ↑ Districts 26 and 27 eliminated in 1973.
- ↑ Districts 24 and 25 eliminated in 1983.
- ↑ Appointed by Governor Casey in May 1991 after Heinz's death and won a special election in November 1991 for the remainder of the term.
- ↑ Districts 22 and 23 eliminated in 1993.
- ↑ As lieutenant governor, filled vacancy in office of governor.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 As president pro tempore of the state Senate, filled vacancy in office of lieutenant governor.
- ↑ Districts 20 and 21 eliminated in 2003.
- ↑ Resigned following election to U.S. Senate.
- ↑ Appointed to fill vacancy.
- ↑ Elected a Republican Speaker.
- ↑ Switched parties from Republican to Democratic on April 28, 2009.
- ↑ William Ryan served as acting Attorney General from January (when Corbett was inaugurated as governor) until Kelly's nomination was confirmed by the State Senate.