{"id":320359,"date":"2026-11-03T17:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T17:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/320359\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T17:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T17:02:10","slug":"lehigh-valley-and-pa-2026-election-day-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/320359\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Valley and Pa. 2026 Election Day live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voters are heading to the polls across the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania and the nation Tuesday in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/news\/politics\/election\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 midterm elections<\/a> that will decide control of Congress, the governor\u2019s mansion and the state legislature.<\/p>\n<p>At the top of the ticket locally is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/10\/08\/election-2026-guide-pa-7th-district-congress\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hotly contested race for Congress in the Lehigh Valley-based 7th District<\/a> between freshman U.S. Rep. Ryan Mackenzie and Democratic challenger Bob Brooks. Voters will also have their say in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/10\/08\/election-2026-guide-pa-governor-race-shapiro-garrity\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pennsylvania governor\u2019s race<\/a> between Democratic incumbent Gov. Josh Shapiro and Republican state Treasurer Stacy Garrity.<\/p>\n<p>Every <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/10\/08\/lehigh-valley-and-pa-election-2026-guide-what-to-know-about-the-candidates-for-pennsylvania-general-assembly\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">seat in the state House and half of the seats in the state Senate<\/a>, including all 3 that cover the Lehigh Valley, are also on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>View live updates from around the region on Election Day below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Voters are heading to the polls across the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania and the nation Tuesday in the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[25041,153,155,154,836,433,182,139,434,28,29,50,432],"class_list":["post-320359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-2026-elections","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-election","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-northampton-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-politics","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320359","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=320359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}