Lehigh Valley Politics and Election News

Rep. Mike Schlossberg credited GOP gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano — and Mastriano's extreme positions — with turning the state House blue for the first time in a decade.

Lehigh County Sheriff Joe Hanna announced Tuesday he will seek a third term in the 2023 election cycle.

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.

Whitehall Township commissioner Republican candidate LoriAnn Fehnel filed a challenge March 14 against fellow Republican candidate Betsey H. Charles, 3212 Chestnut St., based on deficiencies on the latter’s petition.

Gerald C. Yob has been mayor of Freemansburg for 44 years. He served on borough council 12 years before that. Yob turns 96 in August, and plans on running for a 12th term as mayor.

Whitehall Township Board of Commissioners have until March 29 to fill the vacancy and will conduct public interviews with candidates on Monday starting at 6 p.m.

H.B. 827 was proposed by State Rep. Robert Freeman, D-Northampton. The bill aims to establish a tutoring program in which high school students could receive academic credit for being tutors

Tuesday was the deadline for candidates in scores of political races to file their nominating petitions in hopes of getting on 2025 election ballots. Here's a look at how some of the races are shaping up.

Races for Lehigh County judge, Lehigh County executive, Allentown mayor and Bethlehem mayor will be some of the most high profile races on the ballot this year.

In this week’s Political Pulse, Tom Shortell and Chris Borick discuss the shifting dynamics of U.S. foreign policy, in light of the recent meeting between Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, President Trump, and Vice President JD Vance.

The Allentown-based Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center announced it entered a joint lawsuit against the Trump administration.

Hundreds showed up at Payrow Plaza in Bethlehem to support a march for women's rights on International Women's Day on Saturday.

Last fall, Cynthia Mota said she thought it was “time for different leadership” in Allentown. She’s since reconsidered her run for mayor.

Michael Wargo of Mahoning Township has advocated for veterans' mental health services for more than a decade after his son died by suicide.

On this week's episode of Political Pulse, Tom Shortell and Chris Borick talk about President Donald Trump's second term. Has he started it off on a strong foot? In Trump's first month in office, Borick said, approval numbers seem to be pointing down.