ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 Democrat Ana Tiburcio appeared late Tuesday to have locked up a special election for Pennsylvania’s 22nd state House District, a victory that would secure her party’s slim majority in the state House of Representatives for the rest of the year.<\/p>\n
Tiburcio, an Allentown School Board director, and a small band of tired supporters breathed a sigh of relief when Lehigh County’s election office posted the first results of the night around 9 p.m. <\/p>\n
The unofficial tally showed her leading Republican Robert E. Smith Jr. by nearly 600 votes with all of the mail-in ballots and 20 of the district’s 25 precincts reporting.<\/p>\n
Early reports suggest the race saw extremely low turnout. As of 9:16 p.m. with most results in, just 1,300 residents requested a mail-in ballot, and multiple polling places across Allentown closed the day with fewer than 100 total voters.<\/p>\n
The district represents the eastern half of Salisbury Township, Allentown’s East Allentown neighborhood and parts of the Center City neighborhood.<\/p>\n
This breaking news report will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 Democrat Ana Tiburcio appeared late Tuesday to have locked up a special election for Pennsylvania’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[57689,119,121,120,57691,57690,57692],"class_list":["post-122684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-22nd-house-district-and-election","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-ana-tiburcio-and-election","tag-ana-tiburcio-and-robert-e-smith","tag-robert-e-smith-and-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}