{"id":92022,"date":"2026-01-20T22:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T22:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/92022\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T22:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T22:15:07","slug":"special-election-in-pennsylvanias-193rd-district-sees-first-republican-nominee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/92022\/","title":{"rendered":"Special election in Pennsylvania&#8217;s 193rd District sees first Republican nominee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA special election is scheduled for March 17 to fill the vacant seat in Pennsylvania&#8217;s 193rd State House District, with Catherine Wallen emerging as the first party nominee.State Republican leaders have expressed their &#8220;overwhelming support&#8221; for Wallen, who previously worked as a staffer under former Rep. Torren Ecker.Ecker, who represented the district covering Adams and Cumberland County, resigned after being elected as a Common Pleas judge in Adams County.Currently, there is no Democratic nominee, but party leaders plan to hold a committee meeting later this month to select a candidate.The 193rd District has historically leaned Republican.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A special election is scheduled for March 17 to fill the vacant seat in Pennsylvania&#8217;s 193rd State House District, with Catherine Wallen emerging as the first party nominee.<\/p>\n<p>State Republican leaders have expressed their &#8220;overwhelming support&#8221; for Wallen, who previously worked as a staffer under former Rep. Torren Ecker.<\/p>\n<p>Ecker, who represented the district covering Adams and Cumberland County, resigned after being elected as a Common Pleas judge in Adams County.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, there is no Democratic nominee, but party leaders plan to hold a committee meeting later this month to select a candidate.<\/p>\n<p>The 193rd District has historically leaned Republican.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A special election is scheduled for March 17 to fill the vacant seat in Pennsylvania&#8217;s 193rd State House&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[39404,2805,3679,45369,45380,39407,3680,45372,45376,45373,45374,45379,28,30,29,39410,45370,249,45378,45377,45371,45375],"class_list":["post-92022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-193rd-district","tag-adams","tag-adams-county","tag-catherine-wallen","tag-committee-meeting","tag-common-pleas-judge","tag-cumberland-county","tag-ennsylvanias-193rd-state-house-district","tag-first-party-nominee","tag-first-republican-nominee","tag-former-rep-torren-ecker","tag-overwhelming-support","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-rep-torren-ecker","tag-republican-nominee","tag-special-election","tag-staffer","tag-state-republican-leader","tag-state-republican-leaders","tag-vacant-seat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92022","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=92022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}