Stephens Vs. Cerrato: PA 151st Legislative District Results

Editor's Note: This story was updated around 9:30 Wednesday morning.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, PA — It is the morning after Election Day and the race for the 151st Legislative District in Montgomery County continues, with votes still being tallied for each of the two major party candidates.

In Pennsylvania's 151st Legislative District race, Republican incumbent State Rep. Todd Stephens was up against Democratic challenger Melissa Cerrato.

As of 10:20 p.m. Stephens was trailing his opponent. Unofficial results from the Pennsylvania Department of State website showed that Cerrato, a political newcomer, had 6,111 votes to Stephens' 2,608.

That number was updated significantly by Wednesday morning, with Stephens having a recorded 16,611 votes and Cerrato with 16,585.

Patch updated the story early Wednesday morning with the following reporting below:

Related: PA 151st House District Race Separated By 26 Votes At Last Count

What follows is from our earlier story on this race:

The seat was one of only around three House districts still held by Republicans in all of Montgomery County, a once red county that has since trended blue due to changing demographics in the Philadelphia suburban counties.

More about the two candidates in this competitive race can be found within the web links above.

The 151st Legislative District includes the communities of Horsham, Upper Dublin, Montgomery Township and Ambler Borough.

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.