just for hill bit of contrast here, president trump gets 61% in this county. the republican candidate right now is just at 50%. come over to this other big republican county, rick saccone s at 56% if you ronald that up. president trump was at 65%. so, again, you re not going to get the turnout numbers in a non-presidential year. but in terms of the percentages, rick saccone has to get pretty close to where the president was. if you re looking at it right now, 58%. votes are starting to come in quickly here. conor lamb holding on because of this, the lead in allegheny county, which is up to 72%. 10,000 votes. that s the different right now. i suspect we re going to get a lot more votes in the coming minutes. we re going to continue our special coverage on this important congressional special election right after this.
why does he need more? because of this. come over to allegheny county, and this has held consistent. we re up to 85%. if you re conor lamb, these are where your votes are coming from. most of them are in. still 15% out, though, and he s been in the ballpark of 13,000 votes there for a while. if he holds somewhere in 13,000 range in the allegheny county area, rick saccone has got to make it up out here. i want to go to gary tuchman in allegheny county. what are you seeing and hearing, gary? reporter: wolf, allegheny county is about 40% of the district vote, so this is the most important county. we re in a giant warehouse here in pittsburgh. this is actually the warehouse is not in the district but it is in allegheny county. this is where all the absentee ballots are arriving for this county. trucks and cars are pulling in and literally five minutes ago, the absentee ballots started arriving. they are being counted in this room behind me. with us now, this is the elections division m
district by four points. as we continue to count the votes, we bring the district up full. we re up to 30%. conor lamb 53%. so if you re getting if you re in the lamb campaign, you like the margins and you re waiting to see more of the votes come in and if this stays blue. almost a third of the vote is in. let s go over to jake and dana. the president was just there campaigning. if the democrats do win this special election in pennsylvania tonight, they re going to be encouraged to believe, you know what, they might be able to win a whole bunch of other congressional seats in november and become the house majority. that s exactly right. of course republicans outspent the democrats by more than two to one for this congressional seat in a very republican district. one imagines even though the results are not fully in and we don t know who s going to win, so far it looks good for the democrat. i wonder if republicans are
the other side and it makes these races tighter. rick saccone can still pull this race off. it s going to be tough, but he can still pull the race off. the bottom line it s candidates. it seems the percentage is jumping at 2%. it s at 40% now. 7,300 votes conor lamb in the lead. we re going to take a short break. we re watching votes come in from pennsylvania. the question is will democratic enthusiasm be enough to pull off an upset in a deep red district? more on that ahead.
absentee ballots could come down. in a allegheny county, when that final 3% comes in, conor lamb needs to stay there and boost that number. when you pull out, 918 votes ahead with 96% of the precincts and, again, i just want to check one more time to see if anything s moved. that s still at 99%. except rick saccone to get a little bit more here, but we re at 99%. so not a lot. this is key. when that 10% comes in, does it stick with this or does the saccone margin go up a little bit? if you are in the lamb campaign right now, this is what matters most, because it s the biggest part of the district. more people live in these precincts, because it s more suburban. you re more rural when you move out to the other places. you are calling your precinct captains in these areas trying to figure out what in allegheny county is missing. is it a big play place for us a you re biting your nails in both campaigns. and we re told there s about 3,700 is absentee ballots they re counting in alleghen