Bucks Co. Sets Record For Voter Turnout In Municipal Election

BUCKS COUNTY, PA — For a non-presidential contest, Bucks County hit a record for voter turnout in a municipal election since statistics were first reported over two decades ago.

Voter turnout in Tuesday's general election hit nearly 50 percent, the highest recorded by the Bucks County Board of Elections for a municipal election since reaching 42.56 percent in the Nov. 7, 2023, municipal election.

Bucks County's 49.7 percent voter turnout follows similar trends reported in other counties.

Neighboring Montgomery County smashed its voter turnout record, with 49.7 percent as well.

The high turnout in Bucks and Montgomery counties was also the highest in southeastern Pennsylvania, outstripping Philadelphia, Bucks, and Delaware counties.

In Bucks County, 239,241 of the county's 481,514 registered voters appeared at the polls on Tuesday's election.

The turnout caused a "blue tsunami" through Bucks County on Tuesday, with Democrats sweeping all four Court of Common Pleas seats, winning all five Democratic row officer positions, flipping the Sheriff’s Office blue, and electing a Democratic District Attorney for the first time since the Civil War.

So far this year, two "No Kings" protests were held in several Bucks County communities as residents protested the policies of the Trump Administration.

For the first time in county history, Democrats won both the District Attorney and Sheriff offices, along with races for prothonotary, recorder of deeds, and county controller. Come January, Democrats will hold all nine row offices and the board of county commissioners.

In Bensalem Township, for example, three Democrats won election to the council in a town known as a Republican stronghold in Bucks County. In Buckingham Township, a Democrat won for the first time for supervisor, an official said.

Here's a sample of voter turnout in some towns on Tuesday:

• Doylestown Township Precinct No. 6 — 60 percent
• Plumstead Township Precinct No. 1 — 60.82 percent
• Haycock Township Precinct No. 1 — 60.84 percent
• Warminster Township Precinct No. 14 — 62.84 percent
• Lower Makefield South Precinct No. 6 — 63.74 percent
• Bensalem Lower East Precinct No. 14 — 29.88 percent
• Northampton Township Precinct No. 1 — 58.09 percent

Voter turnout for municipal elections in Bucks County in previous years:

• 2025 Municipal Election — 49.7 percent
• 2023 Municipal Election — 42.56 percent
• 2021 Municipal Election — 40.70 percent
• 2019 Municipal Election — 37.08 percent
• 2017 Municipal Election — 30.32 percent
• 2015 Municipal Election — 27.24 percent
• 2013 Municipal Election — 24.18 percent
• 2011 Municipal Election — 26.06 percent
• 2009 Municipal Election — 25.63 percent
• 2007 Municipal Election — 42.56 percent
• 2005 Municipal Election — 29.83 percent
• 2003 Municipal Election — 26.79 percent