Lehigh Valley Politics and Election News

Daniel Buglio will run for Lehigh County coroner, a job he was appointed to this spring.

As part of what will be a routine effort to verify Pennsylvania’s election results, the Department of State has asked counties to perform what’s known as a risk-limiting audit.

Democrats won a suburban Philadelphia state House race Friday, giving them barely enough seats to take the chamber majority after 12 years.

The college is one of the 394 institutions participating in 2022 ALL IN Most Engaged Campuses.

Donald Trump's latest bid for the presidency could face challengers, challenges, area officials say. Even local Republican party officials have some doubts.

Without any contested races, Northampton County quietly passed its risk-limiting voting machine audit Monday afternoon.

Shapiro, the state's two-term attorney general, scored a massive 14 percentage point win over Republican rival Doug Mastriano in last week’s midterm election, smashed state campaign finance records and became the first candidate since 1966 to succeed a governor of the same party in Pennsylvania.

"Difficult to accept as the results are, there is no right course but to concede, which I do, and I look to the challenges ahead," Doug Mastriano wrote in his concession to Josh Shapiro in the Pennsylvania governor's race.

Northampton County's results neatly reflected election returns for governor, U.S. Senate and Congress.

Pennsylvania Democrats believe they will win enough state House seats following Tuesday’s midterm election to secure a majority when the legislature’s new session begins in January.

None of the 4 candidates received the two-thirds of the committee's votes required.

Unlike past years, the public has been offering comments that have been incorporated in the redistricting process.

There has never been a Black member of Bethlehem City Council. Lee has run six times.

Both the senator and the candidate believe Pennsylvania will play a pivotal role in the 2022 midterm election.

A political scientist suggests the Texas senator may be scouting fertile ground toward a higher office.

Commonwealth Court may have to step in.

Cruz is set to endorse U.S. Senate candidate David McCormick in an appearance in Lehigh County.

Trump hinted that vote counters could make a difference in an election's outcome.

John Fielding's right wing posts could affect how he does his job, some fear.

Ideally, maps must be completed by Jan. 24 for the May primary election to proceed smoothly.

'Bad trade deals shuttered Pennsylvania factories,' the ad says as Oz stands on the redeveloped SteelStacks site.

The proposed congressional redistricting map passed along party lines. Gov. Tom Wolf is not happy with the maps.