WEST CHESTER, PA — Democrats led every contested congressional and state legislative race reported in Chester County on Tuesday, Nov. 3, while Gov. Josh Shapiro captured nearly 68% of the county’s vote, outperforming his statewide margin by more than six percentage points as voters also backed three municipal referendums.
Unofficial results from the Chester County Board of Elections showed all 230 precincts reporting, with 243,680 ballots counted and turnout reaching 62.1% of the county’s 392,304 registered voters.
Shapiro, running with Lt. Gov. Austin Davis, received 164,083 votes, or 67.59%, compared with 75,744 votes, or 31.20%, for Republican Stacy Garrity and running mate Jason Richey. Libertarian Ken Krawchuk and John Thomas received 2,527 votes, or 1.04%.
Shapiro’s countywide advantage over Garrity was 88,339 votes, equivalent to 36.39 percentage points.
Statewide, Shapiro received 2,948,412 votes, or 60.12%, compared with Garrity’s 1,892,438 votes, or 38.59%. Krawchuk received 63,696 votes, or 1.30%.
The governor’s Chester County vote share exceeded his statewide percentage by 7.47 points, while Garrity’s county share fell 7.39 points below her statewide performance.
The results underscored Chester County’s importance to the Democratic vote in southeastern Pennsylvania, with Shapiro drawing approximately 5.6% of his statewide votes from the county.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Chrissy Houlahan also secured a substantial advantage in Chester County’s portion of Pennsylvania’s 6th Congressional District.
Houlahan received 158,099 votes, or 65.02%, against Republican Marty Young’s 84,746 votes, or 34.85%, a margin of 73,353 votes.
In the 44th state Senate District, Democrat Katie Muth received 59,309 votes, or 64.04%, compared with Republican Melissa Dicranian’s 33,209 votes, or 35.86%.
The closest legislative contest in the county was the 13th House District, where Democrat Madelyn Alvarino received 13,737 votes, or 51.08%, against Republican John Lawrence’s 13,127 votes, or 48.82%.
Alvarino’s 610-vote advantage represented a margin of 2.26 percentage points, making the district the most competitive race among the county’s reported legislative contests.
In the 26th House District, Democratic Rep. Paul Friel received 19,331 votes, or 64.91%, compared with Republican Samantha Horosky’s 10,405 votes, or 34.94%.
Democratic Rep. Dan Williams led the 74th District with 14,666 votes, or 64.13%, against Republican Lorenzo Kelley’s 8,172 votes, or 35.73%.
Two Democratic incumbents faced no listed Republican opponents.
In the 155th District, Danielle Friel Otten received 22,651 votes, or 85.22%, while write-in votes accounted for 3,930 ballots, or 14.78%.
In the 158th District, Christina Sappey received 20,892 votes, or 82.59%, with 4,404 write-in votes, or 17.41%.
Elsewhere, Democratic Rep. Chris Pielli led the 156th District with 19,625 votes, or 67.62%, against Republican Kris R. Vollrath’s 9,370 votes, or 32.28%.
Democratic Rep. Melissa Shusterman received 21,589 votes, or 68.23%, in the 157th District, compared with Republican Justin J. Pak’s 10,021 votes, or 31.67%.
In the 160th District, Democrat Elizabeth Moro received 7,032 votes, or 59.56%, against Republican Craig Williams’ 4,762 votes, or 40.33%.
Democratic Rep. Kristine Howard led the 167th District with 20,347 votes, or 67.38%, compared with Republican Joe Lewis’ 9,825 votes, or 32.54%.
The county’s results also showed broad voter support for three local ballot questions affecting municipal governance.
In Tredyffrin Township, voters approved a home rule charter referendum by 10,032 votes to 4,262, a margin of 70.18% to 29.82%.
Malvern Borough voters also supported a home rule charter referendum, with 1,014 voting yes, or 59.65%, compared with 686 voting no, or 40.35%.
In East Whiteland Township, a referendum concerning the Board of Supervisors received 3,542 yes votes, or 64.39%, against 1,959 no votes, or 35.61%.
Of the 243,680 ballots counted countywide, 181,474 were cast on Election Day and 62,206 were absentee or mail-in ballots.
That means approximately 74.5% of counted ballots were cast on Election Day, while 25.5% came through absentee or mail-in voting.
The county reported no provisional ballots among the ballots counted at the time of the update.
The results were posted as of 4:00 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4, and remain unofficial pending completion of the election canvass and certification.
The Chester County Board of Elections’ election-night results are available at https://www.livevoterturnout.com/ENR/chesterpaenr/4/en/Index_4.html.
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