Pittsburgh Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Politics=== [[File:The 2020 United States Presidential Election in Pittsburgh.svg|thumb|'''2020 presidential election by precinct''' <br/> '''Biden:''' {{legend0|#b9d7ffff|40β50%}} {{legend0|#86b6f2ff|50β60%}} {{legend0|#4389e3ff|60β70%}} {{legend0|#1666cbff|70β80%}} {{legend0|#0645b4ff|80β90%}} {{legend0|#002b84ff|90β100%}}<br/>'''Trump:''' {{legend0|#e27f90ff|50β60%}} {{legend0|#cc2f4aff|60β70%}}]] {{see also|Allegheny County, Pennsylvania#Politics}} In 2006, Council President [[Luke Ravenstahl]] was sworn in as mayor at age 26, becoming the youngest mayor in the history of any major American city. His successor, [[Bill Peduto]], was sworn in on January 6, 2014. In November 2021, Pittsburgh elected its first African-American mayor, [[Ed Gainey]]. Prior to the [[American Civil War]], Pittsburgh was strongly abolitionist. It is considered the [[History of the United States Republican Party|birthplace of the national Republican Party]],<ref>{{cite web |title=History |url=http://www.pagop.org/about/history/ |access-date=April 19, 2022 |website=Republican Party of Pennsylvania |language=en-US}}</ref> as the party held its first convention here in February 1856. From the Civil War to the 1930s, Pittsburgh was a [[United States Republican Party|Republican]] stronghold. The effects of the [[Great Depression]], combined with entrenched local GOP scandals, resulted in a shift among voters to the Democratic Party. With the exceptions of the [[Pittsburgh mayoral election, 1973|1973]] and [[Pittsburgh mayoral election, 1977|1977]] elections (where lifelong Democrats ran off the party ticket), Democrats have been elected consecutively to the mayor's office since the [[Pittsburgh mayoral election, 1933|1933 election]]. The city's ratio of party registration is 5 to 1 Democrat.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gmfus.org/template/page.cfm?page_id=481 |title=Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania β Transatlantic Cities Network |publisher=The German Marshall Fund of the United States|access-date=May 6, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100619184138/http://gmfus.org/template/page.cfm?page_id=481|archive-date=June 19, 2010}}</ref> Pittsburgh is represented in the [[Pennsylvania General Assembly]] by three [[Pennsylvania State Senate|Senate Districts]] ([[Lindsey Williams]] (D)-[[Pennsylvania's 38th Senatorial District|38]], [[Wayne D. Fontana]] (D)-42, and [[Jay Costa]] (D)-43) and nine [[Pennsylvania House of Representatives|House Districts]] ([[Aerion Abney]]-19, Adam Ravenstahl-20, [[Sara Innamorato]]-21, [[Dan Frankel (American politician)|Dan Frankel]]-23, Martell Covington-24, Dan Deasy-27, [[Abigail Salisbury]]-34, and Harry Readshaw-36, Dan Miller-42). Federally, Pittsburgh is part of [[Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district]], represented by [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] [[Summer Lee]] since 2023 and also by [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] [[Chris Deluzio]]. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page