Historic wins for Democrats<\/p>\n
Ultimately, the Senate majority came down to four races in the 2026 midterms<\/a>, with three in districts that include Philadelphia suburbs.\n<\/p>\n In Bucks County, Eileen Hartnett Albillar<\/a> beat incumbent Republican Sen. Frank Farry in the 6th Senate District.\n<\/p>\n Mark Pinsley<\/a> ousted Republican incumbent Sen. Jarrett Coleman to flip the 16th Senate District, which includes parts of Bucks County and Lehigh County.\n<\/p>\n And Democrat Chris Thomas<\/a> bested incumbent Tracy Pennycuick in the 24th Senate District<\/a>, which includes parts of Montgomery and Berks counties.\n <\/p>\n In Monroe County, Democrat Brian Wrightson managed to unseat Republican Sen. Rosemary Brown of the 40th Senate District.\n<\/p>\n Democrats also lost a seat to Republicans when James Malone failed to fend off a challenge from Republican Tom Jones in the Lancaster County area. Malone won the Republican-majority district in Lancaster County in a special election last year.\n<\/p>\n Republicans had maintained a majority in the state Senate since taking control in 1978, with a brief interruption in 1993 after Sen. Frank Pecora switched from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party, shifting the Senate balance to a 25-25 tie and giving Democratic Lt. Gov. Mark Singel the tie-breaking vote.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Historic wins for Democrats Ultimately, the Senate majority came down to four races in the 2026 midterms, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25694,28,7529,30,29],"class_list":["post-321125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-elections-2026","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-elections","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321125","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=321125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}