Reading, PA · which candidate this place backed 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 this place is a single county: Berks County, Pennsylvania. The figures below are that county’s, which is the same territory — not a larger unit standing in for it.
Presidential nominating contests in Reading, PA, by party and cycle.
○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 · 2026R+5.0
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+12.2
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 7.1 points more Republican than the rolls.
Domestic migration in Reading, PA in Reading, PA: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−1,504
2012
−1,675
2013
−1,812
2014
−2,114
2015
−1,919
2016
−2,110
2017
−675
2018
−70
2019
−871
2021
+485
2022
+1,258
2023
−250
2024
−153
2025
−69
Reading's population is now majority Hispanic, one of the highest shares of any mid-sized northeastern city, and that demographic shift has gradually altered turnout patterns and party registration trends across Berks County.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 38.8 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 38.2 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 4.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 12.2 points.
A population of 433,015, a 67% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $79,777 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ and East Stroudsburg, PA.
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In 2024, Reading, PA, Pennsylvania voted Republican by 12.2 points (R+12.2), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 209,838 votes cast, 91,125 went Democratic and 116,677 went Republican.
When did Reading, PA, Pennsylvania last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Reading, PA, Pennsylvania voted Democratic was 2008.
How many people live in Reading, PA, Pennsylvania?
Reading, PA, Pennsylvania has a population of 433,015 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Reading, PA, Pennsylvania?
Median household income in Reading, PA, Pennsylvania is $79,777 — below the national median of $80,734. The Pennsylvania state median is $77,971.
What is the political history of Reading, PA, Pennsylvania?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Reading, PA, Pennsylvania from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 14 went Democratic and 20 went Republican.
