{"id":24888,"date":"2025-11-05T00:59:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/24888\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T00:59:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:59:15","slug":"scranton-mayoral-race-heats-up-with-four-candidates-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/24888\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton mayoral race heats up with four candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762304354_84_image\" style=\"display:none\" alt=\"https:\/\/img.particlenews.com\/image.php?url=2i4gAC_16HWAEde00\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p>LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 Voters are hitting the polls for Election Day 2025, and 28\/22 News is following many key races in our area. Voters are casting ballots on everything from mayors, council members, and commissioners.<\/p>\n<p>In the race for Scranton Mayor, the Incumbent Democrat, Paige Cognetti, is also saying she will run for Congress.<\/p>\n<p>28\/22 News Reporter Andy Mehalshick was at Scranton High School, which is one of the largest polling places in the city of Scranton.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.2822news.com\/election\/your-local-election-headquarters\/polls-are-open-for-the-2025-general-election\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Where to vote? The 2025 general election is underway <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Voter turnout is around 30%, which is par for the course for off-year local elections, and voters tell 28\/22 News the Scranton Mayoral Race is front and center for them.<\/p>\n<p>Incumbent Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti, a democrat, is seeking a second term. She is facing Republican Patricia Beynon, and Independent candidates Gene Barrett and Rik Little.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762304355_200_image\" alt=\"https:\/\/img.particlenews.com\/image.php?url=2l1D8l_16HWAEde00\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Voters tell 28\/22 News they want to make sure their voices are heard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLocal elections, do you think in general, do you think people don\u2019t pay attention that really impact your life?\u201d Mehalshick asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbsolutely. This is very important and Scranton Mayor race, for sure. Done. I did, I voted!\u201d Scranton resident Carol Deininger exclaimed.<\/p>\n<p>The polls close on Tuesday at 8:00 p.m., and election officials say they usually see many voters come after they get off work.<\/p>\n<p>28\/22 News will have live reports throughout the night on air and on the 2822 Now App.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.2822news.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 Voters are hitting the polls for Election Day 2025, and 28\/22 News is following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2376,182,2375,178,180,16516,179,2374],"class_list":["post-24888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-breaking-news","tag-local-news","tag-newsbreak","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-mayoral-race-heats-up-with-four-candidates","tag-scranton-news","tag-wbre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24888","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=24888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}