Lansdale Mayor Election 2025: Live Results

LANSDALE, PA — Councilwoman Rachael Bollens will be the next mayor of Lansdale, according to unofficial results Tuesday night.

With eight of nine precincts reporting, Bollens held a commanding lead over former Mayor Andy Szekely.

The vote tally sat at 3,360 to 1,637 at 11:44 p.m.

Candidates have not yet issued public statements.

This story will be updated as more information becomes available.

Updates, 11:12 p.m.

Bollens's lead continues to grow as the night goes on. Three of Lansdale's nine precincts have reported in:

• Bollens: 1,644
• Szekely: 584

10:44 p.m.

Bollens now holds a huge lead. However, just one of the borough's nine precincts has reported:

• Bollens: 1,023
• Szekely: 266

9:46 p.m.

Montgomery County Commissioner Neil Makhija said the county has received the highest number of mail-in ballots in an odd-year election in history.

The exact number is not yet known, but Makhija said it was more than 88,000.

9:03 p.m.

No new ballots have been counted and no new precincts have yet reported in the mayoral race. A total of 1,099 mail-in ballots have been counted thus far in the mayoral race, according to county elections statistics.

8:41 p.m.

The first mail-in ballots have been counted in Montgomery County, and because more mail-in voters are Democrats, Democrats hold a significant lead in most races. No in-person precincts have yet been tabulated.

Here's the early returns in the Lansdale mayoral race:

• Democrat Rachael Bollens: 864
• Republican Andy Szekely: 211

LANSDALE, PA — Polls have closed Tuesday night and results for the Lansdale mayoral race are beginning to trickle in from around the area.

Check back to this page for live results throughout the night as they become available.

Incumbent mayor Garry Herbert is stepping aside, and the race features Democrat Rachael Bollens against Republican and former Lansdale mayor Andy Szekely.

Bollens is a current borough councilwoman in Ward 1, and serves on the public works committee and chairs the parks and recreation committee. Her term expires in December.

She received the endorsement of Lansdale Democrats and a few other key organizations in town during the primary, and she won the handily over local businessman William Henning.

Related: 2025 PA Election Guide

Szekely, meanwhile, was the mayor of Lansdale from 2008 to 2018. He was defeated in the 2017 election by current Mayor Herbert.

Szekely has not run for mayor again since, though he has been active in the community and in politics. He was heavily favored to win the long-Republican 53rd state legislative seat, held for decades by Robert Godshall, but he was upset by Democrat Steve Malagari.

2025 marked a late entry into the mayoral race for Szekely, as the original Republican candidate and the winner of the primary, Greg Gilrain, withdrew over the summer.

Szekely, 55, has run his campaign on the legacy of his decade at the helm of the borough, highlighting successes in the revitalization of Main Street. A commonly repeated campaign theme has been "restoring common sense," and he's endeavored to position himself as a known and trusted entity advocating for fiscal responsibility and less wasteful spending.

"The question is simple: is Lansdale better off today than it was ten years ago?" his website asks. Andy’s record as mayor shows he can deliver results."

Bollens, 34, has built her campaign on enfranchising the entire community, building up small businesses, and improving government accessibility and accountability. She's advocated for "one page explainers" of various issues and complex documents that would make it simpler for residents to learn about what's happening around town, and also says she will create a "Lansdale Podcast" that would serve as a community bulletin and informative space after the loss of the radio station.

Her work experience beyond the borough council includes nonprofit program coordination, union and community organizing, field work, campaign management, fundraising, and consulting.

"As a Lansdale native and borough councilwoman, I have seen both the immense progress and also the struggles and growing pains that our modern borough has faced," Bollens wrote. "It is my goal to build upon this foundation and our proud history to launch our community into the next decade."

While Lansdale voted largely red for years, along with the 53rd legislative district, that changed in 2017 and 2018, with the election of both Herbert as mayor and Malagari as state representative. It followed a larger electoral shift throughout Montgomery and Chester counties around that time, described by some as the "blue wave" in response to the first Trump administration.

However, given Trump's significant gains in the Philly suburbs in the 2024 presidential election and the general volatility of electoral trends over the past year, many on the right believe the region could easily turn to the GOP's favor again. Beyond the immediate impact to Lansdale, the 2025 election could serve as a bellwether for the 2026 midterms in Pennsylvania, indicating to what extent Democrats are regaining ground or Republicans are expanding their lead.

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