{"id":122712,"date":"2026-02-25T03:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T03:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/122712\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T03:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T03:46:07","slug":"democrat-ana-tiburcio-ahead-in-unofficial-count-for-pa-22nd-district-seat-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/122712\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Ana Tiburcio ahead in unofficial count for Pa. 22nd District seat | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"ana.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/699e67a66cbd5.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; The unofficial election results are in for the 2026 special election that determines who represents parts of Allentown and Salisbury Township in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>As of 9:52 p.m. Tuesday, Democrat Ana Tiburcio led with 1,474 of votes, or 67.28% of the total, while Republican Robert E. Smith Jr. received 717 votes, or 32.72%.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been living in District 22 and my issues are affordability, fair education and affordable housing. I&#8217;m here to fight for our families and to be the voice,&#8221; Ana Tiburcio says.<\/p>\n<p>Tiburcio is a three-year Allentown school board member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; The unofficial election results are in for the 2026 special election that determines who represents&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2313,57700,119,121,120,42622,10898,57701,5634,10631,57187,2183],"class_list":{"0":"post-122712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-affordable-housing","9":"tag-2026-special-election","10":"tag-allentown","11":"tag-allentown-headlines","12":"tag-allentown-news","13":"tag-ana-tiburcio","14":"tag-democrat","15":"tag-district-22","16":"tag-pennsylvania-house-of-representatives","17":"tag-republican","18":"tag-robert-e-smith-jr","19":"tag-salisbury-township"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122712","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=122712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}