After a long day of collecting and processing votes, Lebanon County posted unofficial vote totals for the 2024 election late Tuesday night.
Lines outside of Bethel Fredericksburg polling precinct at 7 a.m. Tuesday. Lines outside of Bethel Fredericksburg polling precinct at 7 a.m. 
Voters enter the Salvation Army precinct in Lebanon to cast their vote. St. Mark’s Precinct located in the City of Lebanon. Legal signage relevant to voting could be found on all precinct doors. 
Ballot inside a polling booth. 
Signs in the parking lot of the municipal building parking lot to help voters.
As of 2 a.m., around 65 percent of the 73,245 ballots cast were for Donald Trump in the presidential election, with Kamala Harris accumulating around 33 percent of the vote, both figures mirroring local results in 2020 returns.
Statewide, as of early Wednesday, Trump had 3,399,081 votes and Harris had 3,224,282, according to the official election returns page. The Associated Press and other news outlets called Pennsylvania for Trump around 3 a.m. Wednesday.
President (Local results)
| Total | Election Day | Mail-in/Absentee | |
| (D) Kamala Harris | 24,265 | 14,784 | 9,481 |
| (R) Donald Trump | 47,775 | 39,124 | 8,651 |
| (L) Chase Oliver | 382 | 316 | 66 |
| (G) Jill Stein | 278 | 195 | 83 |
| Write-Ins | 286 | 211 | 75 |
Live election results via the Associated Press
Results were similar for the U.S. Senate race, with Republican Dave McCormick receiving 45,688 votes and sitting senator and Democrat Bob Casey Jr. receiving 24,300 votes. According to statewide results as of early Wednesday morning, McCormick appears poised to take the office from the incumbent, with 3,261,457 votes to 3,189,779; however, the AP and other news outlets have not yet called the race.
U.S. Senator (Local results)
| Total | Election Day | Mail-in/Absentee | |
| (D) Bob Casey | 24,300 | 14,918 | 9,382 |
| (R) Dave McCormick | 45,688 | 37,312 | 8,376 |
| (L) John Thomas | 1,195 | 968 | 227 |
| (G) Leila Hazou | 596 | 441 | 155 |
| (C) Marty Selker | 384 | 314 | 70 |
| Write-Ins | 58 | 43 | 15 |
Turnout numbers for 2024 were comparable to the 2020 election, in which 71,858 voted out of 92,637 registered voters. Registered voter figures for 2024 are not yet available.
Of the 73,245 ballots cast, 54,791 were cast at the polls election day, and 18,454 were cast via absentee or mail-in (though this includes mail-in ballots returned the day of the election).
This compares to 48,366 ballots cast in the polls and 22,277 absentee/mail-in in 2020 (as well as 1,417 provisional).
Lebanon County chief election official Sean Drasher told LebTown yesterday that the election was problem-free, and that election workers counted over 18,000 mail ballots in 6 ½ hours.
Read More: Election Day live updates: Lebanon County votes in 2024 general election
Ballot counting room located at the Lebanon Municipal Building. Lebanon County Commissioner Jo Ellen Litz helps with the oversight of the day. Lebanon County elections director Sean Drasher speaks to volunteers about counting ballots inside Lebanon County’s Municipal Building Tuesday Morning. Joy Scarbrough, deputy director for the Lebanon County elections, answers a question concerning voting on Election Day. The best call she received all day was about the birth of her second grandchild.
In the race for Congress 9th District, Republican Dan Meuser received 48,351 county votes, with opponent Democrat Amanda Waldman receiving 22,964 votes. Overall, Meuser ran away with the race, getting 264,138 votes across the district compared to 105,329 for Waldman.
U.S. Congress (Local results)
| Total | Election Day | Mail-in/Absentee | |
| (D) Amanda Waldman | 22,964 | 13,994 | 8,970 |
| (R) Dan Meuser | 48,351 | 39,296 | 9,055 |
| Write-Ins | 88 | 67 | 21 |
The state assembly races for the 101st and 102nd saw the uncontested re-election of Republicans John Schlegel and Russ Diamond, respectively. In the 98th district locally, 4,856 votes went to Republican Tom Jones and 2,665 votes to Democrat Lynn McCleary. Jones handily won that race with his Lancaster County turnout, outpacing McCleary nearly twofold, at 19,656 votes compared to 10,806.
The Attorney General race locally saw Republican Dave Sunday receive 46,755 votes and Democrat Eugene Depasquale receive 22,721 votes. Statewide, Sunday received 3,354,669 votes compared to Depasquale’s 3,007,185.
In Lebanon County, Republican Tim DeFoor received 47,463 votes for Auditor General over his opponent Democrat Malcom Kenyatta, who received 21,240 votes. DeFoor won the race statewide with 3,348,832 votes compared to 2,964,135 for Kenyatta.
Republican Stacy Garrity saw the most votes locally for State Treasurer, with 48,587 votes over opponent Democrat Erin McClelland (20,783 votes). Garrity won statewide with 3,400,442 votes compared to 2,944,333 for McClelland.
Local results can be viewed in full at the county’s website, while statewide results can be viewed here.
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