Register of Wills, Sherry Magretti-Hamilton, Republican.Recorder of Deeds, Frank Schiefer, Republican.Prothonotary, Christina O'Brien, Democratic.District Attorney, John Peck, Democratic.Clerk of Courts, Bryan Kline, Republican.Presidential elections United States presidential election results for Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania Year However, in the 2019 elections, Democratic elected officials lost that majority and carried only one row office.Īs of 2020, the only majority-Dem cities within the county are Arnold and Monessen. A Democratic resurgence in 2015 gave that party a majority of the county commissioners. In 2011, the Republican Party swept all county row offices. Also, the GOP gained control of two more State House districts, the 54th with Eli Evankovich and the 56th with George Dunbar.
In 2010, both Pat Toomey and Tom Corbett won Westmoreland in their statewide bids. In 2008, Republican Tim Krieger picked up the 57th House district left open by the retirement of Democratic state representative Tom Tangretti. Democratic Governor Ed Rendell lost Westmoreland in both 20. Bush became the first Republican to carry the county since 1972, and Republicans have carried the county in every election since, increasing the margin of victory in every successive election until 2020. The Democratic Party historically dominated county-level politics between the New Deal realignment and the turn of the century however, Westmoreland has trended Republican at the national and statewide levels in the 21st century (in direct lockstep with most other Appalachian counties). 1.6 United States House of RepresentativesĪs of November 1, 2021, there are 246,331 registered voters in Westmoreland County.A major coal strike occurred in the county in the winter of 1910–1911. It is wholly part of the Pittsburgh Metro Area, while north-eastern Westmoreland County borders the Johnstown Metro Area. At the 2020 census, the population was 351,029. Westmoreland County originally included the present-day counties of Fayette, Washington, Greene, and parts of Beaver, Allegheny, Indiana, and Armstrong counties. It was founded on February 26, 1773, and was the first county in the colony of Pennsylvania west of the Allegheny Mountains. Westmoreland County is a county located in the U.S.
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