Counties · Lehigh Valley & Berks
Northampton County
Northampton has 234,269 registered voters as of Oct 19, 2026, 2.6% of the state's roll. Democrats lead by 10,206, down from 11,997 at the November 2024 election. The scenario model groups it with 3 other counties as “Lehigh Valley & Berks.”
Registered now
234,269
All parties, Oct 19, 2026
Democratic lead
10,206
D 41.5% · R 37.2% of the roll
Since Nov 2024
−1,054
−0.4% from 235,323
Inactive
10.0%
210,878 active, 23,391 inactive
Registration by party
Since Nov 2024 the Republican share here fell from 37.3% to 37.2% and the Democratic share fell from 42.4% to 41.5%.
Now (Oct 19, 2026)
- Democrats 41.5%
- Republicans 37.2%
- Other and no party 21.3%
May 2026 primary
- Democrats 41.3%
- Republicans 37.6%
- Other and no party 21.1%
Nov 2024 election
- Democrats 42.4%
- Republicans 37.3%
- Other and no party 20.4%
| When | Dem | Rep | Other | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Now (Oct 19, 2026) | 97,304 | 87,098 | 49,867 | 234,269 |
| May 2026 primary | 95,581 | 86,907 | 48,686 | 231,174 |
| Nov 2024 election | 99,689 | 87,692 | 47,942 | 235,323 |
Democrats lead by 10,206, up from 8,674 at the May primary.
Turnout, 2014–2024
In 2022, 57.7% of Northampton's registered voters cast a governor vote, 2.7 points below the state. In 2024 it was 75.7%, 0.9 points below the state.
- Northampton
- Statewide
Results by year
Shapiro carried Northampton by 13.3 points in 2022, and Trump by 1.8 in 2024. Democrats carried it in 4 of 6 elections and Republicans in 2.
| Election | Democrat | Votes | Republican | Votes | Other | Margin | Registered | Turnout |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 governor | Wolf | 40,753 (55%) | Corbett | 33,354 (45%) | 0 | Wolf +10.0 | 195,488 | 37.9% |
| 2016 president | Clinton | 66,272 (46%) | Trump | 71,736 (50%) | 5,511 | Trump +3.8 | 211,402 | 67.9% |
| 2018 governor | Wolf | 65,749 (57%) | Wagner | 47,527 (41%) | 1,846 | Wolf +15.8 | 209,313 | 55.0% |
| 2020 president | Biden | 85,087 (50%) | Trump | 83,854 (49%) | 2,001 | Biden +0.7 | 227,433 | 75.2% |
| 2022 governor | Shapiro | 72,269 (56%) | Mastriano | 54,928 (42%) | 2,704 | Shapiro +13.3 | 225,034 | 57.7% |
| 2024 president | Harris | 86,655 (49%) | Trump | 89,817 (50%) | 1,743 | Trump +1.8 | 235,323 | 75.7% |
What Garrity needs here
On the smallest uniform path to a statewide tie, Garrity needs 48.9% of the ballot in Northampton. That is 6.6 points more than Mastriano won in 2022, and 1.5 points below Trump's 2024 share.
Mastriano 2022
42.3%
Wagner 2018 41.3% · Corbett 2014 45.0%
Trump 2024
50.4%
Share of the presidential ballot
Tie-path target
48.9%
49.9% of the two-party vote
Gain over Mastriano
+6.6 pts
Share of the ballot
Net votes needed
+17,776
Over a 2022 replay, 2.2% of the statewide gap
In 2022 Shapiro won Northampton by 17,341 votes. At the target, on about 135,232 ballots at 2022 turnout on today's roll, Garrity would still lose the county by 277 votes. That is 17,776 net votes better for her than a 2022 replay on the same roll.
How turnout is measured
Turnout is votes in the top race divided by registered voters. The top race is governor in 2014, 2018 and 2022 and president in 2016, 2020 and 2024. The state's returns files have no total-ballots count, so this undercounts by the roughly 1% who skip the top race.
The state's own 2024 count of people who voted in Northampton is 179,570, against 178,215 presidential votes.
A turnout rate can rise because the roll shrank, not because more people voted. That did not happen to a large degree here: no four-year span saw the roll fall 5% or more while votes held within 3%. Warren is the clearest case statewide: 20,650 presidential votes in 2020 and 20,723 in 2024 on a roll that fell from 31,431 to 26,871.