We will elect County Commissioners and County Row Offices. State judges also.
The two incumbent two term Republicans (Mead and Litwin) are running as a ticket after defeating four other Republicans in the primary (first contested primary in some time). One of the other Republicans (Keiser) is planning a write-in campaign. The two Democrats running are the incumbent one termer (Bartron) and an Irish guy who I know from Church (Cronin). It's likely that Cronin will be elected as the Democrat. I would usually say there would be two Republicans elected, but Keiser is running as the anti-incumbent and the Mead and Litwin only pulled ~20% each in the primary, compared to Keiser at ~17%. There is certainly some discontent with both of them.
Row Offices shouldn't be competitive at all (ie Republican victories throughout).
Fairly boring elections. Keiser punted the idea of an independent bid under pressure from local GOP leaders who were worried about two Democrats winning election. The incumbents all ended up winning however.
Mead (GOP) (i) - 48.3% of voters
Litwin (GOP) (i) - 46.7%
Bartron (Dem) (i) - 45.5%
Cronin (Dem) - 36.9%
Under votes - 20.8%
Two interesting notes. 1. The sheer total of under votes. I don't have historical figures, but 20% of voters chose only one or no candidate, which has to be high for the only high profile race on the ballot. 2. Democrats won 46% of valid votes, while Republicans won 54%. This in a 60-40 Bush county. The incumbent sheriff (GOP) won 64% and in the auditor's race the incumbent GOP'ers won 62%.
Ho-hum mostly. There was controversy over the incumbent sheriff forcing people the remove campaign signs for his opponent for violating borough codes of some twisted interpretation.
And I've decided to run for Borough Council in two years, just because there is never anyone on the ballot and it'd be interesting to see how local government operates.
