1988 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania

The 1988 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania took place on November 8, 1988, and was part of the 1988 United States presidential election. Voters chose 25 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Pennsylvania voted for the Republican nominee, Vice President George H. W. Bush, over the Democratic nominee, Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis. Bush won Pennsylvania by a narrow margin of 2.31%, which made it about 5.5% more Democratic than the nation. This was the last election where Pennsylvania would be carried by a Republican presidential candidate until 2016 and the last to date in which a Republican would win a majority of the statewide vote. Northampton and Luzerne counties, both statewide bellwethers, would also not vote Republican again until 2016. This was also the first election since 1932 where Pennsylvania did not vote the same as neighboring New York, another phenomenon that would not occur again until 2016.

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

 * Clinton
 * Erie
 * Indiana
 * Lackawanna

Analysis
, this is the last election in which Lehigh County or the Greater Philadelphia suburban counties of Bucks, Montgomery, and Delaware have voted Republican at the presidential level. Bush became the only Republican to date to win the White House without carrying Indiana County, and the only one to do so without carrying Clinton County since Benjamin Harrison in 1888.