Politics & Government
Sanchez Vs. Ulrich: PA 153rd Legislative District Results
Democratic State Rep. Ben Sanchez was attempting to fend off a challenge by Republican candidate Larry Ulrich.
Editor's Note: This story was updated at 9:45 Wednesday morning.
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, PA — It is the morning after the General Election, and the projected winner of the 153rd Legislative District race appears to be incumbent Democratic State Rep. Ben Sanchez, a lawyer and legislator from Abington Township.
The most recent vote tallies shown on the Pennsylvania Department of State website had Sanchez with a significant lead over Ulrich.
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Unofficial returns showed Sanchez with 22,202 votes and Ulrich with 10,214 votes.
All results are unofficial since outstanding mail-in and provisional ballots still had to be counted.
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The following is from our earlier story on the race:
In Pennsylvania's 153rd Legislative District, incumbent Democratic State Rep. Ben Sanchez was facing off against Republican challenger Larry Ulrich.
The new 153rd House District will cover most of Abington Township, all of Rockledge Borough and about half of Upper Dublin Township.
Sanchez is an attorney and lawmaker who has been an elected legislator since first coming into office back in 2018.
Ulrich, the challenger, bills himself as a constitutional conservative.
Election returns are expected to start coming in for this and other state and federal races throughout the night on Tuesday following the closure of polls, but even unofficial results are not anticipated to be ready by night's end due to a laborious process to count mail-in ballots since Pennsylvania recently greatly expanded mail-in voting.
While many results likely won't be ready by Tuesday evening in Pennsylvania, in the coming days Patch will bring you up to date information about the results in state and local election races.
Disclaimer: All election results reported on Tuesday night are unofficial and totals may change. State election officials say it could take days for actual, official results to be tallied, due to things like mail-in voting. And it then takes 20 days after the election for Pennsylvania to certify its results.
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