Election day 2023 reports thread

[Deminpenn]

6. Dan McCaffery elected to open PA Supreme Court seat

That maintains the Ds 5-2 majority.

In Allegheny county D Sara Innamorato defeated Joe Rockey, her R challenger. Zappala kept his seat as DA.

In my county, all pretty much went as I expected with all but 1 incumbent (D) winning in the county row offices. All 3 incumbent county commissioners were re-elected. The incumbent DA lost in a squeaker to his conservative Dem opponent by less than 700 votes. In my specific school board election, the crazy incumbents all lost, most of them in the primary, but the one who made it through on the R side was defeated last night. In the other crazy vs not crazy school board election in South Side Beaver, the crazies won. That district is largely rural and extremely conservative, not an especially surprising result.

Looks like there was a good deal of ticket-splitting which was normal for this part of PA before Trump. Dems again outnumbered Rs in mailed ballots, but we need to work on getting Dems who don't vote by mail to the polls on election or get more to vote by mail.

With the closeness of the Allegheny county executive election and the ticket splitting, IMHO, that signals voters want responsible and pragmatic government that works and isn't caught up in a highly partisan agenda.