{"id":322759,"date":"2026-11-07T00:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T00:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/322759\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T00:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T00:02:15","slug":"election-2026-chrissy-houlahan-wins-reelection-in-6th-congressional-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/322759\/","title":{"rendered":"Election 2026: Chrissy Houlahan wins reelection in 6th Congressional District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Rep. Chrissy Houlahan has won a fifth term in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Voters in the 6th Congressional District have chosen the Democratic incumbent over Republican challenger Marty Young. The district includes all of Chester County and parts of Berks County, including Reading.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"U.S. Rep. Chrissy Houlahan\" width=\"472\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/REP.-CHRISSY-HOULAHAN.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"2090061\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to incomplete and unofficial vote totals, Houlahan received 198,715 votes and Young followed with 110,297 votes. In Berks County, Houlahan received 40,616 votes and Young received 25,551.<\/p>\n<p>While these vote totals may not include all mail and provisional ballots, the Associated Press called the race for the incumbent around 9:15 p.m. Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Houlahan was first elected to serve in Congress in 2018. She previously served as an Air Force officer, was a businesswoman and engineer, had taught chemistry with Teach For America and served as an executive for a nonprofit literacy organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. Rep. Chrissy Houlahan has won a fifth term in Congress. Voters in the 6th Congressional District have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,836,3612,182,139,28,50,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-322759","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-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322759","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=322759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}