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Election 2018

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(From left) Mary Gay Scanlon, Madeleine Dean, Chrissy Houlahan, and Susan Wild, all Pennsylvania women who won their congressional bids during the 2018-midterm elections (Emily Cohen for WHYY; Matt Rourke/AP Photo; Matt Rourke/AP Photo; Jacqueline Larma/AP Photo)
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Elections
Pennsylvania

Voter turnout booms in ‘burbs, Philadelphia

We look at voter turnout in Southeast Pennsylvania...big numbahs.

7 years ago

Election workers pore over Pennsylvania Senate's 6th District race in the Bucks County Courthouse. (Katie Meyer/WITF)
Keystone Crossroads
Elections
Pennsylvania

Tina Davis, down 72 votes, files suit over Bucks County Senate race

Though Pennsylvania’s state legislative elections are over and done, one Senate race is still under contention.

7 years ago

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Midterm voter turnout increased up statewide in Pennsylvania from 43 percent in 2014 to 58 percent this year. (Emily Previti)
Keystone Crossroads
Elections
Pennsylvania

Voter turnout up in every Pa. county compared to 2014 midterm

Pennsylvania's turnout jumped from 43 percent in 2014 to 58 percent in this year’s midterm.

7 years ago

Officials bury the hatchet at Return Day in Georgetown, Delaware. The ceremony symbolizes the end of political hostilities in the First State. (Chuck Snyder/for WHYY)
Community Events
Delaware
Elections

Vanquished Simpler, victorious Davis embody Delaware’s unique Return Day

Ken Simpler, Delaware’s first-term treasurer, was viewed by many in political circles as a possible Republican challenger to Democratic ...

7 years ago

Delaware state Rep.-elect Sherry Dorsey Walker greets supporters in 2018 at the Doubletree Hotel in Wilmington. (Saquan Stimpson for WHYY)
Delaware
Gender
Race & Ethnicity

Election brings more diversity to Delaware Legislature

Tuesday’s election has made Delaware’s General Assembly a more diverse legislature. In a state that’s 22 percent Afr ...

7 years ago

In this April 14, 2016, file photo, Braddock, Pa., then-Mayor, now Lt Gov-elect John Fetterman meets with people following a news conference he held in Norristown, Pa. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo, File)
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Pennsylvania

Fetterman has ambitions, but does he have a tie?

We ask Lt. Gov. John Fetterman about a Senate run in 2020 and the dress code for presiding over the Pa. Senate.

7 years ago

New Jersey 3rd Congressional candidate Andy Kim mingles with supporters at the Westin in Mount Laurel while waiting for results on election night. Kim's race against incumbent Tom MacArthur was too close to call
Elections

Kim declares victory in N.J.’s 3rd district; MacArthur not conceding

As of Wednesday, Democratic candidate Andy Kim was up by about 2,500 votes over incumbent U.S. Rep. Tom MacArthur in the state’s 3rd District.

7 years ago

Brian Fitzpatrick celebrates his reelection with his brother, and former congressman, Mike Fitzpatrick. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Elections
Government Accountability
Pennsylvania

Money flooded Pa. congressional races, but didn’t necessarily make the difference

Candidates for Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate and congressional seats and their supporters spent $100.7 mil ...

7 years ago

Democrat Jennifer O'Mara is met with joyous celebration after winning a Statehouse race Philadelphia's suburbs. (Emily Cohen for WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Elections
Government Accountability
Pennsylvania

Surge in Philly suburbs brings Democrats gains in Harrisburg, but GOP holds General Assembly

The wake of the blue wave that swept Democrats into control of the U.S. House of Representatives trickled down to Pennsylvania state legi ...

7 years ago

Poll workers carry umbrellas as they greet voters headed in to a polling place at Glasgow High School on Tuesday, Nov. 6. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Delaware
Elections
History

Delaware midterm turnout highest since 1994

More than 360,000 Delawareans voted in Tuesday’s midterm elections. That translates to a turnout rate of 52 percent.

7 years ago

Volunteers with Make the Road Action in Pa. celebrate Democratic wins at the organization's office in Reading on November 6, 2018. (Rachel McDevitt/WITF)
Elections
Immigration
Pennsylvania

Pa. immigrant rights group claims victory in midterm

An advocacy group for Latino and immigrant rights in Pennsylvania is claiming victory in Tuesday's midterm elections.

7 years ago

Tom Wolf delivers a brief speech at his election night event after declaring victory. (Katie Meyer/WITF)
Elections
Pennsylvania

Wolf wins re-election, says it’s time to ‘get back to work’

When Gov. Tom Wolf took the stage to make his victory speech in York Tuesday night, he seemed like a man who hadn't been sweating the win.

7 years ago

Incumbent Democrats Tom Carper and Lisa Blunt Rochester during a watch party Tuesday, Nov. 06, 2018, at the Doubletree Hotel in Wilmington, Delaware. (Saquan Stimpson for WHYY)
Delaware
Elections

Delaware Dems Carper, Blunt Rochester win big

Tom Carper secured his fourth term in the Senate with 60 percent of the vote, and Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester took 64 percent.

7 years ago

Headquarters for N.J. Rep. Tom MacArthur on election night 2018. (Miguel Martinez for WHYY)
New Jersey
Politics

MacArthur leads Kim in N.J., but it’s too close to call

After Democrats flipped three GOP seats from New Jersey, they'll have to wait to find out if they unseated U.S. Rep Tom MacArthur.

7 years ago

U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., gives a victory speech during his election night party in Scranton, Pa., on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. (Jake Danna Stevens/The Times-Tribune via AP)
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Elections
Pennsylvania

Analysis: Democrats roar in Pennsylvania

Stung by a demoralizing loss in 2016, Pennsylvania Democrats made a comeback in Tuesday’s midterm elections.

7 years ago

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