{"id":25203,"date":"2025-11-05T06:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T06:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/25203\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T06:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T06:19:09","slug":"democrats-sweep-major-races-in-lehigh-and-northampton-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/25203\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats sweep major races in Lehigh and Northampton counties"},"content":{"rendered":"

Voters across the Lehigh Valley selected mayors, county executives and local officials Tuesday for the 2025 General Election, shaping the region\u2019s leadership for the next four years. Polls closed at 8 p.m., and results continue to be counted. Here are the results as of 12:24 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5:<\/p>\n

Allentown Mayor<\/p>\n

Incumbent Matt Tuerk (D) was re-elected to a second term, defeating City Council member Ed Zucal (R).<\/p>\n

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Tuerk won with 72% of the vote to Zucal\u2019s 28%.<\/p>\n

Bethlehem Mayor<\/p>\n

J. William Reynolds (D) was re-elected mayor of Bethlehem. He ran unopposed.<\/p>\n

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Bethlehem City Council<\/p>\n

All four Democratic candidates \u2014 Rachel Leon, Hillary Kwiatek, Justin Amann and Jo Daniels \u2014 won seats.\n<\/p>\n

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Leon (D) \u2013 3,794 votes<\/p>\n

Kwiatek (D) \u2013 3,479<\/p>\n

Amann (D) \u2013 3,393<\/p>\n

Jo Daniels (D) \u2013 3,312<\/p>\n

Poplawski (R) \u2013 1,603<\/p>\n

Lehigh County Executive<\/p>\n

Josh Siegel (D) defeated Roger MacLean (R) with 64% to 36%.<\/p>\n

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Northampton County Executive<\/p>\n

Tara Zrinski (D) defeated Tom Giovanni (R) with 59% to 41%.<\/p>\n

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Northampton County Court of Common Pleas<\/p>\n

Jeremy Clark (D) defeated James Fuller (R), 50,652 votes to 34,924.<\/p>\n

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Northampton County Council<\/p>\n

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Five candidates were elected to the county council.<\/p>\n

Lori Vargo Heffner (D) \u2013 48,658 votes<\/p>\n

David Holland (D) \u2013 48,498 votes<\/p>\n

Jason Boulette (D) \u2013 47,318 votes<\/p>\n

Theresa Fadem (D) \u2013 47,124 votes<\/p>\n

Nadeem Qayyum (D) \u2013 43,904 votes<\/p>\n

Allentown City Council<\/p>\n

All four Democratic candidates \u2014 Cynthia Mota, Jeremy Binder, Natalie Santos and Christian Pungo \u2014 won seats on Allentown City Council.\n<\/p>\n

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Mota \u2013 9,578 votes<\/p>\n

Binder \u2013 8,731 votes<\/p>\n

Santos \u2013 8,393 votes<\/p>\n

Pungo \u2013 7, 857 votes<\/p>\n

Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas<\/p>\n

Mark Stanziola (D) defeated Patricia Fuentes Mulqueen (R), 42,897 votes to 26,291.<\/p>\n

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State Supreme Court Retention<\/p>\n

Voters approved the retention of Christine Donohue, Kevin Dougherty and David Wecht, maintaining Democrats\u2019 5-2 majority.<\/p>\n

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Turnout<\/p>\n

Turnout was 37.8% in Lehigh County and 39.2% in Northampton County, according to election officials.<\/p>\n

County boards will continue canvassing mail, provisional and overseas ballots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Voters across the Lehigh Valley selected mayors, county executives and local officials Tuesday for the 2025 General Election,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-25203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25203","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=25203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}