Northampton County voters cast 21,631 votes by mail in advance of today's election. Those numbers are being tallied. They give incumbent Exec Lamont McClure a commanding lead over challenger Steve Lynch. All five Democratic County Council candidates have outpaced Republicans. Willie Reynolds leads John Kachmar in Bethlehem. Democrats Susie Hutnik, Melissa Godel and Sandra McClure are also outpacing Republican opponents in MDJ races.
In the Exec race, McClure has 18.025 mail-in votes, to 3,254 for Lynch. McClure has captured 83% of these votes, well beyond the 72% I had projected based on last year's Presidential.
In the County Council races, all five Democrats are ahead, with ladies first. Tara Zrinski leads with 16,454 votes, followed by Lori Vargo-Heffner (15,934), Patti Bruno (15,463), Ron Heckman (15,786) and Bill McGee (15,308). The closest Republican, John Brown, has a scant 4,099 votes.
Ironically, the 4,099 votes cast for Brown in the Council race, is in excess of the 3,254 that Lynch received in the Exec race.
In the Bethlehem Mayoral, Willie Reynolds has 2,713 MIBs to 501 for John Kachmar.
You can follow the results, including the in-person votes on Northampton County's elections results webpage.
No results are available from Lehigh County at this early hour.
Update at 9:15 pm: So far, 23 precincts have reported election day results. Republicans are getting more election day votes than Democrats, but it appears tome that the lead is insurmountable.
It's a democratic county. Never going to change no matter who runs.
ReplyDeleteDifficult to find good men to run for office as evident in the choices we had. I agree with that
ReplyDeleteIt is NOT a Democratic County. It is purple and turns redder every day. You obviously missed my posts about the voter registration statistics in NorCo. The county is trending R. McClure's convincing victory is nothing less than a rebuke of the extremist politics represented by Lynch.
ReplyDelete@11:07PM We had one horrendous choice and one imperfect and far better choice. Very similar to the last Presidential election, and likely a similar outcome. I would not really compare the two. The first one is a complete whacko, and not qualified to run a Rita's location, let alone a county.
ReplyDeleteLast election resulted in open borders increased prices and calling parents who care about their children domestic terrorists. I think the country made the wrong choice
DeleteAmy Z leading over Van Scott for mini-judge in Lehigh Co. You've gotta' be kidding me. Good example of blindly pulling the "D" lever without examining the candidate.
ReplyDelete8:26 you think so. Bernie still likes Biden he is one of those 39% in the polls who still likes Biden
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