{"id":320623,"date":"2026-11-04T00:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T00:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/320623\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T00:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T00:46:08","slug":"pa-house-and-senate-election-results-who-won-lehigh-valley-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/320623\/","title":{"rendered":"Pa. House and Senate election results: Who won Lehigh Valley races?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All of the Lehigh Valley\u2019s state House and Senate seats were on the ballot Tuesday, in an election where the balance of power in Harrisburg was at stake.<\/p>\n<p>Among the most closely watched races was in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/11\/03\/pa-state-senate-16th-district-election-results-pinsley-coleman\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">state Senate 16th District<\/a> representing parts of Lehigh and Bucks counties, where Republican incumbent Jarrett Coleman faced a challenge from Democrat Mark Pinsley, Lehigh County\u2019s elected controller.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a look at other legislative races:<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania Senate<br \/>\n14TH DISTRICT<\/p>\n<p>Democratic state Sen. Nick Miller, first elected in 2022, faced Republican Omy Maldonado, a technology consultant and U.S. Marine Corps veteran, in this race.<\/p>\n<p>18TH DISTRICT<\/p>\n<p>Democratic state Sen. Lisa Boscola sought her sixth term representing the 18th district. She faces Republican Scott Janney, a minister and nonprofit leader.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania House<br \/>\n22ND DISTRICT<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Allentown City Council member Ce-Ce Gerlach and Republican former Allentown School Board member Robert E. Smith Jr. were seeking to represent the 22nd district. The winner replaces current Rep. Ana Tiburcio, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/05\/21\/ana-tiburcio-concedes-allentown-pa-house-primary\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who lost the Democratic primary in May to Gerlach<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>131ST DISTRICT<\/p>\n<p>Democrat Meriam Sabih, a community organizer and journalist, was seeking to unseat Republican incumbent Milou Mackenzie.<\/p>\n<p>132ND DISTRICT<\/p>\n<p>In this race, Democratic incumbent Michael Schlossberg faced a challenge from Republican Caren Lowrey, a drug prevention specialist.<\/p>\n<p>134TH DISTRICT<\/p>\n<p>Democrat Pete Schweyer, the incumbent, faced business owner and Republican Miriam Maldonado.<\/p>\n<p>135TH DISTRICT<\/p>\n<p>Incumbent Stephen Samuelson, a Democrat, ran against Republican Joseph Poplawski, a home and building inspector.<\/p>\n<p>136TH DISTRICT<\/p>\n<p>Democratic incumbent Robert Freeman faced community activist and Republican Pilar Cavallo-Campisi.<\/p>\n<p>137TH DISTRICT<\/p>\n<p>Longtime Republican incumbent Joe Emrick faced Democrat Jeff Warren, a Northampton County commissioner and former Easton City Council member.<\/p>\n<p>138TH DISTRICT<\/p>\n<p>In this race, Democrat Jared Bitting, an educator, was seeking to unseat longtime Republican incumbent Ann Flood.<\/p>\n<p>183RD DISTRICT<\/p>\n<p>Democrat Deirdre Kamber Todd, a lawyer, faced Republican incumbent Zach Mako.<\/p>\n<p>187TH DISTRICT<\/p>\n<p>Democrat Rachel Cuevas, an HR professional, faced Republican incumbent Gary Day.<\/p>\n<p>In the 133rd district, longtime Democratic incumbent Jeanne McNeill had no Republican challenger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All of the Lehigh Valley\u2019s state House and Senate seats were on the ballot Tuesday, in an election&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,5523,836,433,182,2941,200,139,434,28,50,432],"class_list":["post-320623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-carbon-county","tag-election","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-monroe-county","tag-montgomery-county","tag-news","tag-northampton-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-politics","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320623","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=320623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}