 All five statewide winners carried it in November 2004 and all four statewide Democratic candidates carried it in November 2008, with District Attorney John Morganelli doing well there despite losing statewide to incumbent Attorney General Tom Corbett.The Democratic Party has been dominant most of the time in county-level politics in recent decades.In 2016, Donald Trump ended that streak when he became the first Republican presidential candidate to win Northampton County since 1988.