Norristown Presidential Election Results: Trump Down From 2016

NORRISTOWN, PA — As former Vice President Joe Biden moved into the lead in Pennsylvania on Friday ahead of President Trump, he has several Montgomery County towns to thank, including Norristown.

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 Norristown, Biden currently has 9,392 votes. That's up from 8,826 cast for Clinton in 2016.

Increased turnout also benefited Trump, though to a much lesser extent: his Norristown tally rose from 1,891 in 2016 to 2,054 in 2020.

Overall, Biden won the municipality in 2020 by 403 more votes than Clinton did in 2016.

Broken down by precinct, there is no one specific part of town that stands out as an aberration. Biden saw gains of dozens or as many as a hundred voters in nearly all precincts over Clinton in 2016.

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.