An initiative to provide nonpartisan, independent elections journalism for southwestern Pennsylvania.
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Budget battles and fights over environmental regulation, election access, and education spending will almost immediately test the reputation Josh Shapiro’s crafted over nearly two decades in public office as a compromise-seeker.
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Toomey has been on a local and national media tour since the election last week to pull the Republican party away from Trump’s influence.
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Mastriano, of Franklin County, issued a news release Sunday evening saying that he accepted the results of Tuesday’s election.
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Pennsylvania citizen groups are celebrating what will likely be the first narrowly-divided state House of Representatives in more than a decade — and they’re giving newly-drawn state political maps part of the credit.
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Support for abortion rights drove women to the polls in Tuesday’s elections. But for many, the issue took on higher meaning, part of an overarching concern about the future of democracy.
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The requirement added fresh pressure and prompted counties to develop processes to ensure they complied with it.
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Evangelical Christians across the U.S. reconfirmed their allegiance to conservative candidates and causes in the midterm elections. Catholic voters also continued to show how closely divided they are, even on abortion.
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Suburbs across Allegheny County that turned out for Donald Trump in 2020 — such as Findlay, West Mifflin and Pine —showed far less enthusiasm for Republicans this year.
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Voters in Pennsylvania did reelect the late state Rep. Tony DeLuca in Tuesday’s midterm elections even though the 85-year-old Democrat died of cancer Oct. 9.
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Partisan control of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives remains up in the air, two days after 100 Democrats and 100 Republicans were elected. As of Thursday there are two races in swing districts still unresolved.