{"id":196853,"date":"2026-05-19T16:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T16:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/196853\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T16:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T16:50:08","slug":"pa-and-lehigh-valley-primary-election-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/196853\/","title":{"rendered":"Pa. and Lehigh Valley primary election live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voters are casting ballots across the Lehigh Valley and Pennsylvania in Tuesday\u2019s primary election to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/05\/18\/lehigh-valley-and-pa-primary-election-2026-heres-whos-on-your-ballot-tuesday\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pick their party\u2019s nominees for the November general election<\/a>. Polls are open until 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Local Democrats are voting in contested primaries in four races: the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/04\/15\/pennsylvania-congress-7th-district-democratic-primary-candidates-questions-issues\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">7th Congressional District<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/04\/27\/election-2026-meet-the-2-democrats-running-to-face-sen-jarrett-coleman-in-november\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">16th state Senate district<\/a> in Lehigh and Bucks counties, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/05\/01\/2026-primary-election-allentown-pa-house-22nd-district-democrat-divisions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">22nd<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/05\/01\/election-2026-pa-house-187th-district-democratic-primary\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">187th<\/a> state House districts in Lehigh County. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/05\/04\/pa-primary-election-2026-your-complete-guide-to-the-candidates-for-lieutenant-governor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Republicans are voting in a contested primary for lieutenant governor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The crowded Democratic primary for the Lehigh Valley-based 7th District will be closely watched, as Bob Brooks, Ryan Crosswell, Lamont McClure and Carol Obando-Derstine vie for the nomination to take on Republican first-term incumbent U.S. Rep. Ryan Mackenzie. That November matchup is considered to be one of the most hotly contested races nationally of the midterm congressional elections.<\/p>\n<p>View live updates below throughout the day and evening on Election Day:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Voters are casting ballots across the Lehigh Valley and Pennsylvania in Tuesday\u2019s primary election to pick their party\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,836,241,433,139,434,28,50],"class_list":["post-196853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-election","tag-latest-headlines","tag-lehigh-county","tag-news","tag-northampton-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196853","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=196853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}