Malone defeated Lancaster County Commissioner Josh Parsons by less than 500 votes. President Trump previously won the 36th State Senate District by 15 points.

With nearly all votes counted in Lancaster County’s 36th Senate District special election, Democrat James Malone had a narrow lead over Republican Josh Parsons as of 10:30 p.m. Tuesday evening.

Democrat James Andrew Malone narrowly won a special election for a state Senate seat in a stretch of Republican-leaning Pennsylvania suburbs and farming communities, scoring an upset in a territory that a Democrat hasn’t represented in the chamber for 136 years.