{"id":26146,"date":"2025-11-06T00:46:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T00:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/26146\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T00:46:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T00:46:15","slug":"election-2025-results-reading-city-council-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/26146\/","title":{"rendered":"Election 2025 results: Reading City Council races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A pair of contested Reading City Council races \u2014 one in District 4 and one for council president \u2014 each went to the Democratic candidate Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Donna Reed was re-elected as council president, while Ray Baker handily bested his Republican competitor, Gary Colby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two other races in Districts 1 and 5 saw Democratic candidates running uncontested. Vanessa Campos retained her seat on council, and will be joined there by Rafael Nunez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">City Council president<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Reed, who was appointed president by her peers in January 2023 and won a two-year term in November 2023, found that voters on Tuesday felt she deserved to keep the job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Reed earned a total of 5,681 votes, while Republican Evelyn Morrison received 1,626. Those results mean Reed has earned a four-year term leading City Council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">All vote totals are incomplete and unofficial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Council District 4<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Democrat Ray Baker defeated his Republican competitor by a more than 3-to-1margin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Baker received 1,109 votes, while Gary Colby received 296.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pair of contested Reading City Council races \u2014 one in District 4 and one for council president&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4897,17079,17080,2716,16603,5631,128,130,129,3932],"class_list":{"0":"post-26146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-city-council-president","9":"tag-council-president","10":"tag-democratic-candidate","11":"tag-donna-reed","12":"tag-gary-colby","13":"tag-ray-baker","14":"tag-reading-city","15":"tag-reading-city-headlines","16":"tag-reading-city-news","17":"tag-vanessa-campos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26146","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=26146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}