Democrats keep Pennsylvania House majority, positioning party to prevent limits on abortion rights

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Heather Boyd, Democratic candidate for Pennsylvania House of Representatives, smiles while talking with supporters before voting at her polling place, Christ's Community Church, Tuesday, May 16, 2023, in Drexel Hill, PA.
(AP photo/Matt Slocum)

(link) https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-election-legislature-politics-campaign-fe4d515358ba45a9f83283afac3c8fe0

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democrats maintained their narrow Pennsylvania House majority Tuesday by winning a special election and along with it continued control over how the chamber will handle abortion, gun rights and election law legislation.

Heather Boyd won a seat in the Philadelphia suburbs, beating Republican Katie Ford for a vacancy created by the resignation of Democratic Rep. Mike Zabel. Zabel quit the Legislature in March, shortly after a lobbyist accused him of sexually harassing her.

Boyd is a former congressional and state legislative aide. Her district was once Republican but has given solid margins to Democratic candidates in recent elections. Her win gives Democrats 102 seats, the minimum needed to control the agenda in the 203-member House. The state Senate has a Republican majority.

The Democrats’ victory in the Delaware County district means first-term Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro will have at least one chamber to aid his agenda going into the final month of budget negotiations. The result could also affect a proposed constitutional amendment limiting abortion rights that legislative Republicans are one House floor vote away from putting before voters as a referendum.

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Congratulations Heather Boyd, and ALL Pennsylvania Democrats!

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1. And it wasn't even close

A very decisive victory.
I read an article in RCP analyzing the delightful R results in the midterms. They honestly thought that making women involuntarily brood mares would be “old news” and not an issue by November. Idiots.