Allentown-Bethlehem-East Stroudsburg, PA-NJ · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 · 34 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
68.2%
164,988 votes · D+36.9
Runner-up · Grover Cleveland, 1892 · 58.3%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
71.5%
115,202 votes · R+43.6
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 61.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
263,548votes
49.4% of the vote · R+0.01
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 259,691 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
283,180votes
51.6% of the vote · R+4.3
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 263,592 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
Grover Cleveland1892
+17.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+19.2 · U.S. D+1.7
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1900 · +16.2 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
+26.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+43.6 · U.S. R+17.5
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1932 · +12.9 pts
U.S. House elections · 3 House
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U.S. House
On a multi-state Place, each row sums votes cast in the separate U.S. House races held inside the Place that year. It is a geographic vote total, not one contest or a seat tally.
Allentown-Bethlehem-East Stroudsburg, PA-NJ · how this place’s counties split between candidates in each party’s presidential nominating contest, cycle by cycle. A primary is a contest inside one party, so it has no Democratic–Republican margin and is not part of the general-election record above.
Akashic reports votes cast, not delegates awarded. The two can disagree: Clinton led the 2008 national primary popular vote by less than half a point and did not win the nomination.
Primary returns are published at county grain and there is no roll-up above it. Each cell counts how many of this place’s counties a candidate led — a count of records, not a vote total. Who led the place as a whole is not knowable from these returns, because county rows carry a leader and a lead but no per-candidate votes.
Presidential nominating contests in Allentown-Bethlehem-East Stroudsburg, PA-NJ, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Clinton5147,136 votes · 5 of 5 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Clinton3Sanders2103,626 votes · 5 of 5 countiesprimary
Biden5107,128 votes · 5 of 5 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Republicannot ingested
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record — Akashic holds no result for that party and cycle here. It is not a claim that no contest was held. Telling apart a contest that was cancelled, one that went uncontested, and one simply not yet ingested needs a nominating-contest calendar, which is a separate ingest from results and does not exist yet.
Republican presidential primaries are not yet ingested — the Republican series runs from 1856 and is in scope. The row is kept so its absence is visible: a Democratic-only panel would otherwise read as though no one else held a contest.
Akashic carries 10 states for 2012 and 3 states for 2024. Cycles in which an incumbent president seeks renomination are thin by nature — few states run a contested primary — so a sparse column is politics, not a hole in the record.
County returns carry a leader and a lead over the runner-up, and nothing more. The full candidate field with vote shares is published at state grain — follow a cycle above to the state contest for it.
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026D+1.7
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+4.3
Allentown-Bethlehem-East Stroudsburg, PA-NJ registers Democratic but votes Republican — a 6.0-point gap between how voters register and how they vote, the signature of ancestral registration that trails realignment.
Domestic migration in Allentown-Bethlehem-East Stroudsburg, PA-NJ in Allentown-Bethlehem-East Stroudsburg, PA-NJ: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−228
2012
−3,301
2013
−4,803
2014
−1,217
2015
−1,901
2016
−1,258
2017
+2,882
2018
+1,810
2019
+719
2021
+9,228
2022
−1,212
2023
+1,085
2024
+735
2025
+1,847
Allentown-Bethlehem-East Stroudsburg, PA-NJ sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 36.9 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 43.6 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 4.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 4.3 points.
A population of 1,041,118, a 67% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $84,853 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Rochester-Batavia-Seneca Falls, NY and Albany-Schenectady, NY.
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How did Allentown-Bethlehem-East Stroudsburg, PA-NJ, Pennsylvania vote in 2024?
In 2024, Allentown-Bethlehem-East Stroudsburg, PA-NJ, Pennsylvania voted Republican by 4.3 points (R+4.3), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 549,095 votes cast, 259,691 went Democratic and 283,180 went Republican.
When did Allentown-Bethlehem-East Stroudsburg, PA-NJ, Pennsylvania last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Allentown-Bethlehem-East Stroudsburg, PA-NJ, Pennsylvania voted Democratic was 2012.
How many people live in Allentown-Bethlehem-East Stroudsburg, PA-NJ, Pennsylvania?
Allentown-Bethlehem-East Stroudsburg, PA-NJ, Pennsylvania has a population of 1,041,118 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Allentown-Bethlehem-East Stroudsburg, PA-NJ, Pennsylvania?
Median household income in Allentown-Bethlehem-East Stroudsburg, PA-NJ, Pennsylvania is $84,853 — above the national median of $80,734. The Pennsylvania state median is $103,556.
What is the political history of Allentown-Bethlehem-East Stroudsburg, PA-NJ, Pennsylvania?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Allentown-Bethlehem-East Stroudsburg, PA-NJ, Pennsylvania from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 18 went Democratic and 16 went Republican.
