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Election 2008 Results

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2008 presidential election in Pennsylvania

Barack Obama (Democrat) beat John McCain (Republican) in Pennsylvania in 2008, 54.5% to 44.2%, a margin of 10.3 points and 620,478 votes.

Pennsylvania voted 3.0 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+7.3.

The Democratic hold continued from 2004, when John Kerry won.

Republicans led in 49 of the 67 counties and Democrats in 18. The largest, Philadelphia, cast 717,155 votes and went to the Democrat by 66.8 points. The closest was Greene, where 60 votes separated the two parties.

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Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Barack Obama won Democratic 3,276,363 54.5%
John McCain Republican 2,655,885 44.2%
All other candidates 81,024 1.3%
Total6,013,272

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Philadelphia 595,980 83.1% 117,221 16.3% 3,954 717,155 D+66.8
Allegheny 373,153 57.3% 272,347 41.8% 5,880 651,380 D+15.5
Montgomery 253,393 60.0% 165,552 39.2% 3,466 422,411 D+20.8
Bucks 179,031 53.8% 150,248 45.1% 3,644 332,923 D+8.6
Delaware 169,030 60.1% 109,322 38.9% 2,730 281,082 D+21.2
Chester 137,833 54.2% 114,421 45.0% 2,051 254,305 D+9.2
Lancaster 99,586 43.7% 126,568 55.5% 1,943 228,097 R+11.8
York 82,839 42.7% 109,268 56.3% 2,076 194,183 R+13.6
Berks 97,047 53.9% 80,513 44.8% 2,336 179,896 D+9.2
Westmoreland 72,721 41.1% 102,294 57.9% 1,770 176,785 R+16.7
Lehigh 87,089 57.1% 63,382 41.6% 1,993 152,464 D+15.5
Northampton 75,255 55.5% 58,551 43.2% 1,775 135,581 D+12.3
Luzerne 72,492 53.6% 61,127 45.2% 1,544 135,163 D+8.4
Dauphin 69,975 54.0% 58,238 45.0% 1,313 129,526 D+9.1
Erie 75,775 59.4% 50,351 39.4% 1,516 127,642 D+19.9
Cumberland 48,306 42.6% 63,739 56.3% 1,253 113,298 R+13.6
Lackawanna 67,520 62.6% 39,488 36.6% 858 107,866 D+26.0
Washington 46,122 47.1% 50,752 51.8% 1,128 98,002 R+4.7
Butler 32,260 35.7% 57,074 63.2% 1,021 90,355 R+27.5
Beaver 40,499 47.9% 42,895 50.8% 1,069 84,463 R+2.8
Centre 41,950 55.4% 32,992 43.6% 795 75,737 D+11.8
Monroe 39,453 57.7% 28,293 41.4% 639 68,385 D+16.3
Cambria 32,451 49.5% 31,995 48.8% 1,176 65,622 D+0.7
Franklin 21,169 33.3% 41,906 65.9% 560 63,635 R+32.6
Schuylkill 28,300 44.9% 33,767 53.6% 987 63,054 R+8.7
Lebanon 23,310 40.0% 34,314 58.9% 628 58,252 R+18.9
Mercer 26,411 49.1% 26,565 49.4% 820 53,796 R+0.3
Blair 19,813 37.3% 32,708 61.6% 560 53,081 R+24.3
Fayette 25,866 49.2% 26,081 49.6% 607 52,554 R+0.4
Lycoming 18,381 37.3% 30,280 61.5% 574 49,235 R+24.2
Adams 17,633 39.6% 26,349 59.2% 507 44,489 R+19.6
Lawrence 19,711 46.8% 21,851 51.9% 522 42,084 R+5.1
Crawford 16,780 44.1% 20,750 54.5% 544 38,074 R+10.4
Indiana 17,065 45.8% 19,727 52.9% 507 37,299 R+7.1
Somerset 12,878 36.6% 21,686 61.7% 603 35,167 R+25.0
Northumberland 14,329 42.2% 19,018 56.1% 569 33,916 R+13.8
Clearfield 14,555 43.1% 18,662 55.3% 557 33,774 R+12.2
Armstrong 11,138 37.0% 18,542 61.7% 392 30,072 R+24.6
Columbia 13,230 47.2% 14,477 51.6% 334 28,041 R+4.4
Carbon 13,464 50.0% 12,957 48.1% 498 26,919 D+1.9
Bradford 10,306 40.0% 15,057 58.4% 419 25,782 R+18.4
Pike 11,493 47.3% 12,518 51.5% 286 24,297 R+4.2
Venango 9,238 39.7% 13,718 58.9% 332 23,288 R+19.2
Wayne 9,892 43.3% 12,702 55.6% 239 22,833 R+12.3
Bedford 6,059 27.0% 16,124 71.9% 258 22,441 R+44.9
Perry 6,396 32.4% 13,058 66.2% 279 19,733 R+33.8
Susquehanna 8,381 43.5% 10,633 55.1% 269 19,283 R+11.7
Jefferson 6,447 34.3% 12,057 64.1% 297 18,801 R+29.8
Huntingdon 6,621 35.5% 11,745 63.0% 280 18,646 R+27.5
Warren 8,537 46.2% 9,685 52.4% 272 18,494 R+6.2
Tioga 6,390 35.6% 11,326 63.0% 249 17,965 R+27.5
Clarion 6,756 38.0% 10,737 60.4% 272 17,765 R+22.4
Union 7,333 42.1% 9,859 56.7% 208 17,400 R+14.5
Mifflin 5,375 32.6% 10,929 66.2% 197 16,501 R+33.7
Greene 7,829 49.1% 7,889 49.4% 243 15,961 R+0.4
McKean 6,465 40.5% 9,224 57.8% 258 15,947 R+17.3
Snyder 5,382 34.8% 9,900 64.0% 197 15,479 R+29.2
Clinton 7,097 48.0% 7,504 50.7% 192 14,793 R+2.8
Elk 7,290 51.1% 6,676 46.8% 292 14,258 D+4.3
Wyoming 5,985 45.6% 6,983 53.2% 161 13,129 R+7.6
Juniata 3,068 31.6% 6,484 66.8% 159 9,711 R+35.2
Montour 3,364 41.9% 4,574 57.0% 85 8,023 R+15.1
Potter 2,300 30.6% 5,109 68.1% 98 7,507 R+37.4
Fulton 1,576 25.0% 4,642 73.6% 88 6,306 R+48.6
Sullivan 1,233 39.5% 1,841 59.0% 46 3,120 R+19.5
Forest 1,038 42.5% 1,366 55.9% 40 2,444 R+13.4
Cameron 879 38.0% 1,323 57.2% 109 2,311 R+19.2

Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

Pennsylvania in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+1.7
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+1.2
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+0.7
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+5.4
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+10.3
2004 John Kerry (D) D+2.5
2000 Al Gore (D) D+4.2
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+9.2
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+9.0
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+2.3
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+7.4
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+7.1
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) D+2.7
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+20.0
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+3.6
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+30.2
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+2.3
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+13.2
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+5.9
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+4.0
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+2.8
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+6.9
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+16.0
1932 Herbert Hoover (R) R+5.5
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+31.4
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+46.3
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+38.6
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+14.0
1912 Theodore Roosevelt (other)
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+23.4
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+40.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+24.6
1896 William McKinley (R) R+24.7
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+6.4
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+8.0
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+9.5
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+4.3
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+2.4
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+24.5
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+4.4