{"id":197911,"date":"2026-05-20T15:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/197911\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T15:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:24:08","slug":"democrats-sweep-pittsburgh-oust-republican-incumbents-in-pa-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/197911\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats sweep Pittsburgh, oust Republican incumbents in PA election"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pittsburgh residents cast their votes in Pennsylvania’s primary election on May 19<\/a>, electing numerous incumbents and making way for several new leaders in state positions.<\/p>\n

Democrats overwhelming took the vote, winning 26 of 27 key races in Allegheny County. Most notably, voters backed Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro<\/a>, who will attempt to win a second term this fall, while several newcomers unseated incumbents as state representatives.<\/p>\n

Voter turnout was relatively low, with 22.7% of Allegheny’s 915,194 registered voters casting their votes, according to the county<\/a>. In total, there were 207,755 ballots cast.<\/p>\n

Here are the unofficial results in key races in Allegheny County as of May 20 morning, with 1,322 of 1,327 precincts reporting.<\/p>\n

Governor<\/p>\n

Josh Shapiro (D, incumbent) – 151,505<\/p>\n

Stacy Garrity (R) – 41,257<\/p>\n

Lt. Governor<\/p>\n

Austin Davis (D, incumbent) – 149,271<\/p>\n

Jason Richey (R) – 37,342<\/p>\n

U.S. Representative, 12th District<\/p>\n

Summer Lee (D, incumbent) – 67,818<\/p>\n

William Parker (D) – 15,393<\/p>\n

U.S. Representative, 17th District<\/p>\n

Chris Deluzio (D, incumbent) – 69,904<\/p>\n

Jesse James Vodvarka (R) – 15,940<\/p>\n

PA Senate, District 38<\/p>\n

Lindsey Williams (D, incumbent) – 239,547<\/p>\n

PA Senate, District 42<\/p>\n

Wayne D. Fontana (D, incumbent) – 23,888<\/p>\n

Paul Steenkiste (D) – 9,192<\/p>\n

PA Representative, District 19<\/p>\n

Aerion Andrew Abney (D, incumbent) – 6,285<\/p>\n

PA Representative, District 20<\/p>\n

Emily Kinkead (D, incumbent) – 7,723<\/p>\n

PA Representative, District 21<\/p>\n

Lindsay Powell (D, incumbent) – 8,149<\/p>\n

PA Representative, District 23<\/p>\n

Dan Frankel (D, incumbent) – 9,766<\/p>\n

PA Representative, District 24<\/p>\n

La’Tasha D. Mayes (D, incumbent) – 8,860<\/p>\n

Will Anderson (D) – 1,202<\/p>\n

PA Representative, District 25<\/p>\n

Brandon J. Markosek (D, incumbent) – 6,870<\/p>\n

PA Representative, District 27<\/p>\n

Dan Deasy (D, incumbent) – 7,163<\/p>\n

PA Representative, District 28<\/p>\n

Jeremy Shaffer (R, incumbent) – 4,057<\/p>\n

Jeremy Ferderber (D) – 3,838<\/p>\n

Robert Bertha (D) – 1,880<\/p>\n

PA Representative, District 30<\/p>\n

Arvind Venkat (D, incumbent) – 7,002<\/p>\n

PA Representative, District 32<\/p>\n

Joe McAndrew (D, incumbent) – 8,600<\/p>\n

PA Representative, District 33<\/p>\n

Mandy Steele (D, incumbent) – 6,304<\/p>\n

PA Representative, District 34<\/p>\n

Abigail Salisbury (D, incumbent) – 10,373<\/p>\n

PA Representative, District 35<\/p>\n

Dan Goughnour (D, incumbent) – 6,521<\/p>\n

PA Representative, District 36<\/p>\n

Jessican Benham (D, incumbent) – 6,783<\/p>\n

Timothy McCune (R) – 1,071<\/p>\n

PA Representative, District 38<\/p>\n

John Inglis (D, incumbent) – 7,303<\/p>\n

PA Representative, District 39<\/p>\n

Dylan Altemara (D) – 3,062<\/p>\n

Andrew Kuzma (R, incumbent) – 2,742<\/p>\n

Kellianne Frketic (D) – 1,780<\/p>\n

PA Representative, District 40<\/p>\n

Natalie Mihalek (R, incumbent) – 2,919<\/p>\n

PA Representative, District 42<\/p>\n

Jen Mazzocco (D, incumbent) – 8,775<\/p>\n

PA Representative, District 44<\/p>\n

Valerie Gaydos (R, incumbent) – 3,424<\/p>\n

PA Representative, District 45<\/p>\n

Brittany Bloam (D) – 5,142<\/p>\n

Patrick J. Catena, Jr. (D) – 2,994<\/p>\n

PA Representative, District 46<\/p>\n

Jason Ortitay (R, incumbent) – 766<\/p>\n

Voters also selected members for the state Democrat and Republican committees, as well as hundreds of members for local committees. Full election results can be viewed on Allegheny County’s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Democrats win big in Pittsburgh in PA primary election 2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh residents cast their votes in Pennsylvania’s primary election on May 19, electing numerous incumbents and making way…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[33,31561,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-197911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-josh-shapiro","tag-pa-senate","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197911","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=197911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}