{"id":25089,"date":"2025-11-05T04:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T04:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/25089\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T04:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T04:18:09","slug":"democrats-appear-to-take-northampton-county-council-seats-election-central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/25089\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats appear to take Northampton County Council seats | Election Central"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the race for Northampton County Council, 10 candidates were vying for five open spots.<\/p>\n<p>The five Democratic candidates, including one incumbent, held the edge over the five Republican candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Democrat Lori Vargo Heffner is the current council president.<\/p>\n<p>Republican incumbents John Goffredo and John Brown were also running for reelection.<\/p>\n<p>Two other Democrats currently on the board &#8212; Jeffrey Corpora and Ronald Heckman &#8212; are not running for reelection.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, the Democrats hold a 6-3 majority on the board. With the unofficial results in, the Democrats will have upped their majority to 8-1.<\/p>\n<p>County councilmembers are elected for 4-year terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the race for Northampton County Council, 10 candidates were vying for five open spots. The five Democratic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,836,434],"class_list":["post-25089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-election","tag-northampton-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25089","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=25089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}