{"id":324103,"date":"2026-11-09T10:52:19","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T10:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/324103\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T10:52:19","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T10:52:19","slug":"flynn-wins-reelection-baker-leads-in-two-nepa-state-senate-races-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/324103\/","title":{"rendered":"Flynn wins reelection; Baker leads in two NEPA state Senate races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State Sen. Marty Flynn won reelection in Pennsylvania\u2019s 22nd Senate District, while Republican Sen. Lisa Baker held a sizable lead in the 20th District as votes continued to be counted Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press projected Flynn, a Democrat, would defeat Republican challenger Sharon Soltis Sparano. The district includes Lackawanna and Luzerne counties.<\/p>\n<p>In the 20th District, unofficial results showed Baker, a Republican, leading Democrat Jaclyn \u201cJackie\u201d Baker with 96% of the expected vote reported. The latest tally showed Lisa Baker with 66,006 votes, or 62%, and Jaclyn Baker with 41,288 votes, or 38%. The Associated Press had not called that race ibut she is expected to win.<\/p>\n<p>The 20th District includes Luzerne, Pike, Susquehanna, Wayne and Wyoming counties. Lisa Baker was first elected to the state Senate in 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"State Sen. Marty Flynn won reelection in Pennsylvania\u2019s 22nd Senate District, while Republican Sen. Lisa Baker held a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-324103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324103","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=324103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}