Nearly 59,000 registered Pennsylvania Democrats left the party in 2023; that makes more voters than the number of fans needed to fill the capacity of the Franklin Field football stadium at the University of Pennsylvania.
Of those nearly 59,000 who left the Democratic Party, 36,950 switched to the Republican party, and 21,644 switched their party affiliation to “other,” the category that the Pennsylvania State Department uses in its data to cover parties such as Green and Libertarian.
