Election Results In Montgomery County: How Did Locals Vote Tuesday?

Pennsylvania may have gone for Donald Trump, but that wasn't because of Montgomery County. The area remained strongly Democratic, overwhelmingly voting for Hillary Clinton for President.

Clinton won 251,063 against Trump's 160,803 in Montgomery County. That's a margin of 58 percent to 37 percent, roughly. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson gained 10,764 votes, enough for 2.5 percent of the total.

Surprisingly, that's even better than President Obama performed in Montgomery County in 2008. Obama won 56.52 percent, and a total of 233,356 votes against Mitt Romney.

Similarly, Kate McGinty also defeated Pat Toomey soundly in Montgomery County, despite losing the general election. In many ways, the U.S. Senate race mirrored the Presidential race in the state: both Clinton and McGinty held an early comfortable lead, which slowly evaporated as the night went on. Each lost by tiny, nearly identical margins hovering around one percentage point.

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