Registration certified for primary election
More than 36,000 Carbon County residents are eligible to vote in the primary election on May 15.
Official voter registration totals released by the Carbon County Board of Elections show that includes 18,141 Democrats and 18,136 Republicans, those parties being the only ones certified to participate in the primary balloting.
The primary affords Democrats and Republicans the chance to vote within their party, as the two major organizations nominate people to run in the November general election. This year is a state and federal election year in which the voters will vote on the state governor and lieutenant governor’s position, as well as seats in the state Senate and House of Representatives.
On the federal level, at stake in 2018 is one of the two U.S. Senator seats, as well as positions in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The registration period for the primary election closed on April 16, showing the Democratic Party now holds a mere five-person lead over the GOP. While the two major parties consist of 36,277 voters, overall, there are 42,686 people on the county’s registration rolls.
The registration list includes 3,647 people who have no party affiliation, 1,061 others who are signed up to the Independent Party and 838 nonpartisans. Another 198 people have “no party” listed on their registrations.
A breakdown of the major parties’ voter registrations by municipality is as follows:
Banks Township: 429 Democrats, 227 Republicans.
Beaver Meadows: 296 Democrats, 223 Republicans.
Bowmanstown: 236 Democrats, 235 Republicans.
East Penn Township: 966 Republicans, 733 Democrats.
East Side Borough: 75 Republicans, 71 Democrats.
Franklin Township: 1,534 Republicans, 1,023 Democrats.
Jim Thorpe: 1,752 Democrats, 1,137 Republicans.
Kidder Township: 678 Republicans, 465 Democrats.
Lansford: 1,116 Democrats, 749 Republicans.
Lausanne Township: 76 Democrats, 76 Republicans.
Lehigh Township: 233 Republicans, 83 Democrats.
Lehighton: 1,400 Democrats, 1,235 Republicans.
Lower Towamensing Township: 848 Republicans, 800 Democrats.
Mahoning Township: 1,333 Republicans, 967 Democrats.
Nesquehoning: 1,128 Democrats, 714 Republicans.
Packer Township: 484 Republicans, 191 Democrats.
Palmerton: 1,414 Democrats, 1,318 Republicans.
Parryville: 119 Democrats, 119 Republicans.
Penn Forest Township: 2,975 Democrats, 2,958 Republicans.
Summit Hill: 1,125 Democrats, 656 Republicans.
Towamensing Township: 1,482 Republicans, 1,073 Democrats.
Weatherly: 776 Republicans, 553 Democrats.
Weissport: 113 Democrats, 80 Republicans.
