Latest Registration Data, Presidential Voting History For Bucks Co.

BUCKS COUNTY, PA —With President Joseph Biden dropping out of the race, the upcoming November general election has sparked a renewed interest.

In an election campaign that has seen an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris replacing Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket, voter turnout will be watched to see how many of the county's 478,034 registered voters turn out at the polls.

Bucks County is a key county in the battleground state of Pennsylvania with many pundits stating that the Commonwealth holds the path to The White House.

During the April primary election, the president beat the former president.

Biden garnered 55,750 votes (94.91 percent) while Trump received 49,055 votes (80.88 percent). The turnout on Tuesday was 31.7 percent.

But after Trump's assassination attempt and before Harris entered the race, Republicans overtook Democrats in terms of the county's number of registered voters.

As of July 22, Republicans have 198,034 registered voters in Bucks County, just edging Democrats with 197,757 voters. Other parties have 82,243 registered voters. The county has not updated figures for August as of yet with Harris now on board.

In the last contest between Biden and Trump on Nov. 3, 2020, 81.41 percent of the registered voters turned out at the polls, according to statistics from the Bucks County Board of Elections.

Support had slipped for Trump too as opposed to his defeat of Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election when 75.95 percent of the county's voters turned out at the polls.

Biden beat Trump by more than 16,000 votes in Bucks County, helping him grab the state's 20 electoral votes. Trump won 27 of Bucks County's 54 municipalities in 2020.

Meanwhile, eight municipalities in Bucks County flipped from red to blue in the most recent election. Just one — Dublin Borough — went from blue to red, uncertified results show.

Trump fared better in Bucks County in the 2016 presidential race.

In 2016, Clinton won the county but by a more narrow margin of about 2,700 votes. Trump took 34 of the county's municipalities in that race.

In the 2012 presidential election, voter turnout was just shy of 74 percent while county turnout was 75.51 percent in 2008 and 71.09 percent in 2004, according to the Bucks County Board of Elections statistics.