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Five counties that voted for [[Barack Obama|Obama]] in [[2008 United States presidential election|2008]] voted for [[Mitt Romney|Romney]] in 2012. This included Cambria County, which made Obama the first Democrat to win the presidency without carrying the county since [[Woodrow Wilson]] in [[1916 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania|1916]]. Chester County, a [[Philadelphia|Philadelphia suburb]], also voted for Romney, though it would flip back into the Democratic column in [[2016 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania|2016]]<ref>{{Cite news|date=2017-09-13|title=Pennsylvania Election Results 2016|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/elections/2016/results/pennsylvania|access-date=2020-11-09|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> and remain there in [[2020 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania|2020]].<ref>{{Cite news|title=Pennsylvania Election Results|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|date=3 November 2020 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/results-pennsylvania.html|access-date=2020-11-09|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Obama became the first Democrat to win the White House without carrying [[Elk County, Pennsylvania|Elk County]] since [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] in [[1940 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania|1940]], and the first to do so without carrying [[Carbon County, Pennsylvania|Carbon County]] since [[John F. Kennedy]] in [[1960 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania|1960]]. As of the [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 election]], this marked the most recent time that [[Chester County, Pennsylvania|Chester County]] voted for the Republican candidate, and that [[Luzerne County, Pennsylvania|Luzerne County]] voted for the Democratic candidate.
This, as of 2023, is also the last time Pennsylvania voted more Republican than [[Iowa]] and [[Wisconsin]]; and
==Primaries==
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