Camden has historically been a stronghold of the <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" id="mwBPg">Democratic Party</a>. As of November 6, 2018, there were 42,264 registered voters in the city of Camden. As of March 23, 2011, there were 43,893 registered voters in Camden, of which 17,403 (39.6%) were registered as <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" id="mwBP0">Democrats</a>, 885 (2.0%) were registered as <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" id="mwBP4">Republicans</a> and 25,601 (58.3%) were registered as <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/Unaffiliated_(New_Jersey)" title="Unaffiliated (New Jersey)" class="mw-redirect" id="mwBP8">Unaffiliated</a>. All <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/Mayors_of_Camden,_New_Jersey" title="Mayors of Camden, New Jersey" id="mwBQQ">Camden mayors</a> since 1935 have been Democrats. The last Republican Camden mayor was Frederick von Nieda, who only sat in office for a year. During his second term, Obama visited Camden in 2015 and said that "Hold you up as a symbol of promise for the nation. This city is on to something, no one is suggesting that the job is done," the president said. "It's still a work in progress." In the <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/2012_United_States_presidential_election" title="2012 United States presidential election" id="mwBQ0">2012 presidential election</a>, Democrat <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama" id="mwBQ4">Barack Obama</a> was seeking reelection and was challenged by <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/Mitt_Romney" title="Mitt Romney" id="mwBQ8">Mitt Romney</a>. The city overwhelmingly voted for Obama in the biggest Democratic landslide in Camden's history.