After a long day of collecting and processing votes, Lebanon County posted unofficial vote totals for the 2024 election late Tuesday night.

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)

TotalElection DayMail-in/Absentee
(D) Kamala Harris24,26514,7849,481
(R) Donald Trump47,77539,1248,651
(L) Chase Oliver38231666
(G) Jill Stein27819583
Write-Ins28621175

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)

TotalElection DayMail-in/Absentee
(D) Bob Casey24,30014,9189,382
(R) Dave McCormick45,68837,3128,376
(L) John Thomas1,195968227
(G) Leila Hazou596441155
(C) Marty Selker38431470
Write-Ins584315

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 ยฝ hours.

Read More: Election Day live updates: Lebanon County votes in 2024 general election

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)

TotalElection DayMail-in/Absentee
(D) Amanda Waldman22,96413,9948,970
(R) Dan Meuser48,35139,2969,055
Write-Ins886721

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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Emily Bixler was born and raised in Lebanon and now reports on local government. In her free time, she enjoys playing piano and going for hikes.

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