(The Center Square) – Nineteen electors unanimously cast votes on Tuesday for President-elect Donald Trump and his running mate, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio.
The group is the 60th electoral college in state history to assemble, with 1,645 electors having come before them, according to Gov. Josh Shapiro.
“For nearly two and half centuries, the people of Pennsylvania have gone to the ballot box and made their voices heard – voices that the electors reflect as they cast they ballots today,” he said, pointing to the process outlined in the U.S. Constitution. “A process that has been carried out without fail, every four years, dating back to Ben Franklin and Thomas Mifflin. This tradition has stayed the same and our democracy has endured, thanks to those who have come before us and done their part to preserve it.”
The electoral college results are meant to mirror the popular vote in the state on Election Day. Trump won 50.3% of the roughly 7 million ballots cast in the commonwealth.
Pennsylvania’s 17 congressional districts and two Senate seats comprise the 19 electoral college votes assigned to the state. The state has lost a district, and the electoral vote along with it, in every reapportionment conducted since the 1930s, because of a shrinking population.
