{"id":320949,"date":"2026-11-04T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/320949\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T12:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T12:00:11","slug":"election-2026-barton-wins-reelection-to-the-124th-legislative-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/320949\/","title":{"rendered":"Election 2026: Barton wins reelection to the 124th Legislative District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican incumbent Jamie Barton has won reelection in the 124th Legislative District.<\/p>\n<p>The Schuylkill County Republican defeated Democratic challenger Tina Burns in Tuesday\u2019s election to represent the House district in Harrisburg. The district includes parts of western and north-central Berks and eastern Schuylkill counties.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"State Rep. Jamie Barton\" width=\"300\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/REG-L-JamieBarton.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"2324833\" \/>State Rep. Jamie Barton<\/p>\n<p>According to incomplete and unofficial vote totals, Barton received 14,934 votes and Burns received 7,873 votes. In Berks County, the margin of victory for Barton was slightly slimmer with the incumbent receiving 6,298 votes and Burns receiving 4,253. Those totals may not include all mail and provisional ballots and will remain unofficial until results are certified.<\/p>\n<p>Barton has served as representative of the district since 2024. Prior to running for office, he was vice president of an energy company that provides residential and business clients with fuels, HVAC services and electricity. He also served as chairman of the Schuylkill Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Republican incumbent Jamie Barton has won reelection in the 124th Legislative District. The Schuylkill County Republican defeated Democratic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,836,3612,182,139,28,50,128,130,129,231,706],"class_list":["post-320949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-election","tag-election-2026","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-politics","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-schuylkill-county","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320949","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=320949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}