{"id":321811,"date":"2026-11-05T17:10:24","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T17:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/321811\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T17:10:24","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T17:10:24","slug":"election-2026-more-than-half-of-registered-berks-voters-cast-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/321811\/","title":{"rendered":"Election 2026: More than half of registered Berks voters cast ballots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just over half of Berks County\u2019s registered voters cast ballots in Tuesday\u2019s midterm election.<\/p>\n<p>According to data from the Berks County Office of Election Services, turnout for the contest was 52%.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"A voter leaves the polls at the Laureldale Borough Hall on election day Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026. (BILL UHRICH\/READING EAGLE)\" width=\"3000\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/REG-L-2026ElectionEnterprise1846.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"8503994\" \/>A voter leaves the polls at the Laureldale Borough Hall on election day Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026. (BILL UHRICH\/READING EAGLE)<\/p>\n<p>That number is down slightly from the past two midterms. In 2022, more than 58% of registered voters in the county cat ballots, while in 2018 turnout was 55%.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 143,855 of the county\u2019s 275,939 registered voters took part in the election. Of those,115,924 (80.5%) voted in person on Tuesday and 27,931 (19.5%) voted by mail.<\/p>\n<p>A breakdown of turnout by party was not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s midterm election asked voters to pick their choice for governor, lieutenant governor, representative in Congress, half of all state Senate seats and all seats in the state House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just over half of Berks County\u2019s registered voters cast ballots in Tuesday\u2019s midterm election. According to data from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,836,3612,182,139,28,50,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-321811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-election","tag-election-2026","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-politics","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}