Lansdale Area Presidential Election Results: Trump Down From 2016

LANSDALE, PA — As Joe Biden became the projected winner of Pennsylvania over President Trump on Saturday, he had several Montgomery County towns to thank, including Lansdale and Montgomery Township.

All in-person votes and all mail-in ballots received by 8 p.m. Tuesday are now counted in Montgomery County. Final results are still pending, as around 3,200 late-received votes in the county are yet to be counted. But it's clear that the county turned out for Biden in a way it did not for Hillary Clinton four years ago.

In Lansdale, Biden sits at 5,945 votes, to Trump's 2,980. In 2016, Clinton earned 4,697 here in the borough, to Trump's 2,643. So while Trump picked up around 300 more votes then he did four years ago, Biden received support from 1,200 more Lansdale voters than Clinton.

Similar results around several other populous municipalities in the county helped push Biden over the edge, both in Pennsylvania and the Electoral College at large.

"The key of the Keystone State," the Montgomery County Democratic Committee said.

Biden currently has 3,339,500 votes to Trump's 3,308,548, according to the latest statewide vote tallies from the Associated Press.

In nearby Montgomery Township, Biden earned 9,855 votes to Trump's 6,280.

Again, Trump did increase township turnout for himself by about 1,300 over 2016, but Biden increased by around 2,000 over Clinton's 2016 support.

This was a trend that held countywide: Montgomery County cast 256,082 ballots for Clinton in 2016, and 162,731 for Trump. In 2020, Biden has thus far earned 313,543 votes, to Trump's 182,907.

That the already blue county was leaning further to the left was evidenced in the results of state legislature races in both 2018 and 2020, in which Democrats won victories in many seats that had been held by the GOP for decades.

Among those wins in 2020 was Nancy Guenst's victory in the 152nd District, long held by retiring Republican Rep. Tom Murt.

Elsewhere, Republicans were able to hold off strong challenges in districts that otherwise voted Democrat. In the closest state legislature race in the county in 2020, Rep. Todd Stephens held off a strong challenge from Democrat Jonathan Kassa.