 All four statewide Democratic candidates carried Montgomery in 2008, with Barack Obama receiving 60% of the county's vote.Barack Obama won Montgomery County in 2008 and 2012.Despite Donald Trump's victory in the state of Pennsylvania in the 2016 election, Montgomery County was one of the few counties in Pennsylvania which swung in the Democratic presidential candidates' direction with Hillary Clinton winning Montgomery County with 58.87% of the vote, an improvement from Barack Obama's 56.6% vote share in 2012.