Recent voter registration numbers from the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office show an increasing number of voters in Maricopa County registering as Republican rather than Democrat. Between last fall’s election and April, Republican voter registration in the county increased by 9,905 to 851,047. Democratic voter registration increased by only 2,791, less than a third as much. Republicans maintained their registration advantage at 34.39 percent, while Democrats dipped below 30 percent to 29.69 percent.
Democrats held 31.38 percent of voter registrations in the county during last fall’s election, 29.58 percent during the 2018 general election, and 28.57 percent during the 2016 presidential election. The new figures increase Republicans’ lead over Democrats to almost 5 percent, a gap that hasn’t been seen since 2018.
Independents in the county increased significantly since the fall election, by 24,948 to 867,582, overtaking Republicans and Democrats. Recent polling of independents found they are split evenly between both parties.
Statewide, Republicans maintained their lead over Democrats at around 4.5 percent, 1,441,026, to Democrats’ 1,263,056, or 34.57 percent of the total. Independents remained close to Republican levels. The Libertarian Party stayed the same at fewer than 1 percent of registered voters, with 33,367, and the new “No Labels” political party reported only 17 registered voters.
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In heavily Democratic Pima County, Democrats lost some of their lead over Republicans since the fall election, decreasing their advantage by 2,466. Democrats now number 245,052 to Republicans’ 175,858 there.