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How did Philadelphia vote in the presidential election? Here's what to know.

Nov 07, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    20% Somewhat Conservative

  • Reliability

    35% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    12% Somewhat Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    21% Positive

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63% : Out of Philadelphia's 66 wards, Trump won five.
61% : Harris won the county with 309,521 votes (60.8%) as of Wednesday night, while Trump got 193,958 votes.
59% : Trump got the most votes in Philadelphia in the 58th ward.
57% : Trump, now the president-elect, won Pennsylvania over Harris with 50.4% of the vote as of Wednesday night, according to CBS News data.
56% : In 2020, Trump only won three wards in Philly -- the 26th, 58th and 66th.
56% : Although Trump only won one county out of the five, he was able to get enough votes in southeastern Pennsylvania to win the state decisively.
56% : Trump saw the biggest increase in votes in Montgomery County.
55% : Trump increased his total number of votes in Philadelphia from 132,870 in 2020 to 141,203 as of Wednesday night in the 2024 race.
54% : Trump got his second most votes in Philadelphia in the 66th ward with 11,970, which is located in Northeast Philly and borders Bucks County.
50% : Trump won five wards: the 26th in South Philly; the 45th in parts of Port Richmond and Bridesburg; and wards 58, 63 and 66, all in Northeast Philly.
38% : Unofficial election results posted by the Bucks County Board of Elections online show Trump beat Harris in the county by just 512 votes.
31% : While Harris beat Trump in Philadelphia, he out-performed the number of votes he got in 2020 against Mr. Biden.
22% : Trump won the battleground state's 19 electoral college votes back after he lost Pennsylvania to President Biden in the 2020 election.
16% : Meanwhile, Harris won Delaware, Montgomery and Chester Counties, but Trump increased his voting numbers in each county surrounding Philadelphia compared to the 2020 election, according to the state's unofficial results.

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