{"id":197799,"date":"2026-05-20T12:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/197799\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T12:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:40:07","slug":"pa-election-2026-primary-winners-losers-full-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/197799\/","title":{"rendered":"PA election 2026: Primary winners, losers; full results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Primary <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/elections-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Election Day<\/a> is in the books for Pennsylvania.\n<\/p>\n<p>The commonwealth is expected to play a major role this November in the <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/election-2026-pennsylvania-primary-shapiro-democrats-endorsements\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fight for control in Congress<\/a>, as well as Democratic efforts to block the last two years of President Donald Trump\u2019s agenda.\n<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a look at how major primary races unfolded:\n<\/p>\n<p>Pa.\u2019s 3rd District in Philly: <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/third-district-congressional-race-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Progressive Chris Rabb<\/a> is on track to replace Dwight Evans in Congress after besting a crowded field of Democratic primary contenders.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/live\/election-2026-pennsylvania-live-updates-primary\/?message=pantheon-cleared-url-cache#741944\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">High-stakes midterms<\/a>: Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro and Republican Stacy Garrity will face each other in November after winning their uncontested primaries.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Ballot questions approved: Philadelphia voters <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/live\/election-2026-pennsylvania-live-updates-primary\/?message=pantheon-cleared-url-cache#742012\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OK\u2019d two ballot measures<\/a>: one that will create a city-run retirement savings program and one that will codify an office that monitors youth services.<\/p>\n<p>As the votes continue to be counted, follow the latest updates from WHYY News on <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/elections-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WHYY.org<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/whyy-listen-app\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WHYY App<\/a>.\n  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Primary Election Day is in the books for Pennsylvania. The commonwealth is expected to play a major role&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25694,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-197799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-elections-2026","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197799","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=197799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}