Key races in the 2024 Pennsylvania primary election: How Lancaster County voted

Lancaster County’s partisan voters backed the presumptive nominees for U.S. president Tuesday, with Democrats lining up behind Joe Biden and Republicans choosing Donald Trump by significant margins.

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With 100% of precincts reporting at least partial results, 40,781 county Republicans had voted for Trump, and 27,297 county Democrats had voted for Biden.

Voter turnout stood at 29% (84,243 of 290,061 registered voters). That number will rise with the counting of provisional ballots.

While Biden and Trump are the only two candidates actively campaigning for president, U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota remained on the Pennsylvania ballot for the Democrats and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley appeared on the GOP ballot.

Both withdrew from the race in early March, but each garnered support in the primary.

Haley, who has declined to endorse Trump, made a particularly strong showing among conservatives, capturing more than 20% of the county GOP vote (10,459 votes) and 16.8% of the state vote as of press time.

Democrats were more squarely in Biden’s camp, with Phillips receiving just 6.9% of the state vote and 5.4% of the county vote (1,563 votes).

But the county Tuesday did not tabulate write-in votes, which could paint a more accurate picture of Biden’s support.

Uncommitted PA, a new group led by the Democratic Socialists of America, spent the lead-up to the primary campaigning to get at least 40,000 of the state’s registered Democrats — or roughly 1% of the party’s 3.9 million registered voters — to write “uncommitted” on their primary ballots instead of voting for Biden, as a means of protesting the president’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

Write-ins should be tallied by Friday, according to county election officials.

Statewide races

County voters also weighed in Tuesday on the three contested primaries for Pennsylvania executives: attorney general, auditor general and treasurer.

Candidates endorsed by the county party machinery mostly carried the day, with the exception of the Democratic treasurer primary.

Attorney general

The state attorney general primary featured a crowded field, with five Democrats and two Republicans competing for a spot on the ballot in the Nov. 5 general election.

The winner there will replace state Attorney General Michelle Henry, who was appointed to fill the unexpired term of Josh Shapiro when he became governor, and who is not running to keep her job.

Among the Democrats, Eugene DePasquale, a former state auditor general, originally from Pittsburgh and later a state representative from York County, rose to the top in a race where county Democrats chose not to endorse a candidate.

DePasquale outdistanced the rest of the field, receiving more than 37% of the vote statewide.

Final county vote tallies were DePasquale 42.8%, Keir Bradford-Grey 17.9% Jack Stollsteimer 10.5%, Joe Khan 15.1% and Jared Solomon 13.7%.

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On the GOP ballot, Dave Sunday, the York County district attorney since 2017, bested Craig Williams, who has been representing state House District 160 (parts of Chester and Delaware counties) in the Legislature since 2021.

County voters chose Sunday by a more than 4-to-1 margin over Williams, with Sunday claiming about 83% of the vote.

Auditor general

Between the two Democrats vying to compete against incumbent Republican state Auditor General Tim DeFoor in the fall, county voters chose Malcolm Kenyatta by a more than 2-to-1 margin over Mark Pinsley, with Kenyatta taking home 68.3% of the vote.

Kenyatta, a native of Philadelphia, has been serving north Philly in the state House since 2018 and was the first openly LGBTQ+ person of color to serve in the General Assembly. Statewide, he won 63% of the vote.

Pinsley is a business owner and the Lehigh County controller. He ran unsuccessfully for state Senate in 2018 and 2022.

Treasurer

Between the two Democrats vying to compete against incumbent Republican state Treasurer Stacy Garrity in the fall, county voters chose Erin McClelland over Ryan Bizzarro in one of the night’s tightest race.

McClelland, a mental health professional and native of western Pennsylvania, won with just 52.8% of the county vote. Statewide, she drew 55.7% of the vote.

Bizzarro, a lifelong Erie County resident, has served in the Legislature since 2013, representing a swing district in the county.