Berks officials certify general election results

Berks County’s 2024 general election results are now official.

The county board of elections voted to certify the results during a brief meeting Friday, ending the contentious election season.

Director of Elections Anne Norton told the board of elections that her team conducted the necessary checks and audits of the election results, finding no variations or discrepancies with the official tally.

“We came up with exactly the same results as we did during the original count,” she said.

Commissioner Michael Rivera, who serves as chairman of the board of elections, commended the election services team for the hard work and long hours they put in to make sure every vote was counted.

“They did an amazing job preparing for the election, conducting the election and counting the ballots after the election,” he said. “Congratulations to everyone in electoral services and thank you for a job well done.”

Rivera also thanked county workers in other departments who helped count tens of thousands of mail-in ballots and election workers who spent Election Day making sure the voting system ran smoothly.

With all votes counted, Donald Trump topped Kamala Harris in Berks County by 25,544 votes out of 210,400 ballots cast in the presidential contest.

Trump received 116,660 votes, while Harris received 91,116.

The president-elect had his best showing in Berks in the three times he ran for the White House.

The 55% of the vote he received was his largest, surpassing the 53% he received in 2016 and 2020. And his 12-point margin of victory over Harris was, by also the largest, bettering his 11-point victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016. and an 8-point margin over Joe Biden in 2020.