{"id":25185,"date":"2025-11-05T05:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T05:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/25185\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T05:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T05:57:12","slug":"erie-environmental-lawyer-wolford-loses-bid-for-seat-on-pennsylvania-commonwealth-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/25185\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie environmental lawyer Wolford loses bid for seat on Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court"},"content":{"rendered":"

Erie environmental lawyer Matthew Wolford<\/a> has lost his attempt to be the first resident of Erie County elected to Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court.<\/p>\n

Wolford, 64, a Republican, came up short against the Democratic nominee, Stella Tsai, 61, a judge on the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press called the race for Tsai<\/a> at 10:47 p.m. on Nov. 4, with 77% of the votes cast and Tsai leading Wolford by 55.1% to 44.9%. With 87% of the votes counted, the AP later reported that Tsai received 1,751,004 votes (55.5%) to Wolford’s 1,401,251 (44.5%).<\/p>\n

Wolford lost in Erie County. He trailed Tsai by 40,728 votes (54.44%) to 34,029 (45.48%), with 100% of voting precincts reporting, according to the final unofficial results from the Erie County elections office.<\/p>\n

\"Erie<\/p>\n

Erie environmental law attorney Matthew Wolford is the Republican nominee for Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court judge in the municipal election on Nov. 4.<\/p>\n

One seat was up for election on the nine-member Commonwealth Court, which hears cases involving government agencies and regulations, including environmental rules.<\/p>\n

Tsai will fill a seat that opened up with the retirement in January of Commonwealth Court Judge Ellen Ceisler, a Democrat. The mandatory retirement age for judges in Pennsylvania is 75.<\/p>\n

Wolford won the endorsement of the\u00a0Pennsylvania Republican State Committee<\/a>. The Pennsylvania Democratic State Committee\u00a0endorsed Tsai<\/a>. The Pennsylvania Bar Association rated both Wolford and Tsai as “highly recommended<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Contact Ed Palattella at\u00a0epalattella@timesnews.com<\/a>\u00a0or 814-870-1813.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Erie Times-News: Erie environmental lawyer falls short in race for Commonwealth Court<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erie environmental lawyer Matthew Wolford has lost his attempt to be the first resident of Erie County elected…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[5936,16647,136,142,138,137,28,16648,5940,16646],"class_list":["post-25185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-commonwealth-court","tag-democratic-nominee","tag-erie","tag-erie-county","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-republican-state-committee","tag-stella-tsai","tag-wolford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25185","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=25185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}