{"id":64057,"date":"2025-12-18T06:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T06:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/64057\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T06:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T06:01:09","slug":"pennsylvania-house-speaker-sets-date-for-2-special-elections-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/64057\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania House speaker sets date for 2 special elections next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(WHTM) \u2014 Voters now know when they will go to the polls to elect two vacant Pennsylvania House seats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The state\u2019s 22nd District (Lehigh County) and 42nd District (Allegheny County) were left vacant after the November election. Both representatives serving the districts were elected to other offices: Rep. Joshua Siegel (D) will be Lehigh County\u2019s next county executive, and Rep. Dan Miller (D) will now sit on the Allegheny County Common Pleas Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"#sailthru-signup-widget\" data-ylk=\"slk:Close;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Close<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Thanks for signing up!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Watch for us in your inbox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Subscribe Now<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Both lawmakers resigned Wednesday, allowing House Speaker Joanna McClinton (D-Philadelphia\/Delaware) to sign a writs of election, essentially an order to hold an election. The state will hold special elections in the two districts on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It could be a consequential election for the state as Democrats have just a one seat majority in the House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Special elections do not have primaries. Instead, political parties nominate candidates directly. The winner of a special election goes on to serve the remainder of an unexpired term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc27.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to ABC27.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to ABC27. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WHTM) \u2014 Voters now know when they will go to the polls to elect two vacant Pennsylvania House&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[894,16075,433,28,30,9116,29,34224,34225],"class_list":["post-64057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-allegheny-county","tag-joshua-siegel","tag-lehigh-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-house","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-rep-dan-miller","tag-special-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64057","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=64057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}