How Did Your Town Vote in the 2016 Presidential Election? Click Here to Find Out
Hillary Clinton won Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Bucks counties by 179,000 votes, an improvement of more than 50,000 votes over President Obama’s totals in 2012, according to a staff report in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Some interesting facts regarding the vote in Montgomery County include:
- West Pottsgrove, Lower Pottsgrove, Green Lane, Red Hill, Schwenksville, and Pennsburg flipped from blue to red, as each town voted for Barack Obama in 2012, but voted for Donald Trump in 2016.
- Perkiomen, Trappe, Upper Providence, Horsham, Lower Moreland, and Bryn Athyn flipped from red to blue, as each town voted for Mitt Romney in 2012, but voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016.
- Cheltenham (82.7 percent), Narberth (79.7), Norristown (79.7), Lower Merion (75.2), Jenkintown (74.6), Springfield (68.0), Ambler (67.0), and Abington (64.8) overwhelmingly supported Clinton.
- Trump received the most support in Douglass (62.1), Salford (60.8), and Marlborough (60.2).
Click here to see the breakdown, by percentage, of how each town in Montgomery County voted in this year’s presidential election.
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