The Pennsylvania Republican Party recently launched a statewide voter registration competition, hoping to erase a diminishing Democratic registration advantage that’s eroded considerably over nearly the past decade.

Registered Democrats outnumbered Republicans statewide by more than 916,000 when GOP President Donald Trump first won Pennsylvania and the White House in 2016. That advantage stood at just 178,215 as of Monday, when the state last updated voter registration statistics, and is down from 216,892 as of Dec. 23.

GOP gains in northeast Pennsylvania have helped close the registration gap statewide, with Democrats maintaining a registration advantage in just two northeast counties, Lackawanna and Monroe.

Lackawanna remains the region’s lone Democratic stronghold, with Democrats out

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