{"id":320961,"date":"2026-11-04T12:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T12:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/320961\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T12:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T12:24:11","slug":"election-2026-muth-wins-the-44th-senatorial-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/320961\/","title":{"rendered":"Election 2026: Muth wins the 44th Senatorial District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic incumbent state Sen. Katie Muth will be returning to Harrisburg after beating challenger Melissa Dicranian in Tuesday\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p>The district includes Birdsboro and Union Township as well as parts of northern Chester County and parts of western Montgomery County.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"State Sen. Katie Muth\" width=\"1251\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/aa3fb0676a49dacf241218a872f1b481-1.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"3394308\" \/>State Sen. Katie Muth<\/p>\n<p>According to incomplete and unofficial vote totals, Muth received a total of 71,880 votes to Dicranian\u2019s 41,269. Those totals may not include all mail and provisional ballots and will remain unofficial until results are certified.<\/p>\n<p>In Berks, Muth received 1,697 votes to Dicranian\u2019s 1,686.<\/p>\n<p>Muth was first elected to serve in 2018. Prior to being elected, Muth served as an adjunct professor of kinesiology at a local university while also practicing sports medicine. She got her start in politics as a volunteer in political campaigns before moving on to form and chair Indivisible Mid Montco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Democratic incumbent state Sen. Katie Muth will be returning to Harrisburg after beating challenger Melissa Dicranian in Tuesday\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,1557,836,3612,182,200,139,28,50,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-320961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-chester-county","tag-election","tag-election-2026","tag-local-news","tag-montgomery-county","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-politics","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320961","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=320961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}