Ronald Reagan Republican George H. W. Bush Republican The 1988 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania took place on November 8, 1988, and was part of the 1988 United States presidential election.

Bush won Pennsylvania by a narrow margin of 2.31%, which made it about 5.5% more Democratic than the nation.

[2] This is the last time that Erie County voted for the statewide loser.

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 and 2024.

As of the 2024 presidential election[update], this is the last election in which Lehigh County or the Greater Philadelphia suburban counties of Montgomery and Delaware have voted Republican at the presidential level.