Editing Norristown, Pennsylvania (section)

==Politics and government==
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|+ '''Presidential elections results'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.montcopa.org/Archive.aspx?AMID=132|title=Montgomery County Election Results|publisher=Montgomery County, Pennsylvania|access-date=January 16, 2017}}</ref>
|- style="background:lightgrey;"
! Year
! [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
! [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
|-
|[[2024 United States presidential election|2024]]
|21.0% ''2,303''
|'''77.8%''' ''8,521''
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:#f0f0ff;"|[[U.S. presidential election, 2020|2020]]
|  style="text-align:center; background:#fff3f3;"|17.8% ''2,099''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#f0f0ff;"|'''81.4%''' ''9,600''
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:#f0f0ff;"|[[U.S. presidential election, 2016|2016]]
|  style="text-align:center; background:#fff3f3;"|17.1% ''1,891''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#f0f0ff;"|'''79.7%''' ''8,826''
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:#f0f0ff;"|[[U.S. presidential election, 2012|2012]]
|  style="text-align:center; background:#fff3f3;"|16.0% ''1,749''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#f0f0ff;"|'''83.0%''' ''9,053''
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:#f0f0ff;"|[[U.S. presidential election, 2008|2008]]
|  style="text-align:center; background:#fff3f3;"|17.0% ''2,042''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#f0f0ff;"|'''82.3%''' ''9,911''
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:#f0f0ff;"|[[U.S. presidential election, 2004|2004]]
|  style="text-align:center; background:#fff3f3;"|24.2% ''2,611''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#f0f0ff;"|'''75.3%''' ''8,147''
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:#f0f0ff;"|[[U.S. presidential election, 2000|2000]]
|  style="text-align:center; background:#fff3f3;"|24.6% ''2,066''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#f0f0ff;"|'''73.0%''' ''6,124''
|}
Norristown has been a home rule municipality since 1986 when voters adopted a charter with a manager/council form of government and a seven-member municipal council. The office of mayor was abolished in July 2004 after a public referendum amended the municipal charter. Executive and administrative authority is now delegated to a council appointed Municipal Manager.

The municipality is part of the [[Pennsylvania's 5th congressional district|Fifth Congressional District]] (represented by Rep. [[Mary Gay Scanlon]]), the 70th State House Districts (represented by Rep. [[Matt Bradford]]) and the 17th State Senate District (represented by Sen. [[Amanda Cappelletti]]).