The Pennsylvania Primary Elections 2024 saw several candidates from both the Democratic and Republican parties winning their respective primaries. Here are some key takeaways from the elections:
Democratic Primaries:
- Patrick Harkins, Bob Merski, Ryan Bizzarro, Micah Goring, Joe Cancilla, Jake Banta (incumbent), Heather Hanna (incumbent), Eric Weaknecht (incumbent), Michael Walker, Brad Roae (incumbent), Parke Wentling (incumbent), Aaron Bernstine (incumbant), Marla Brown (incumbt, Amen Brown, John Lawrence, Carmela Ciliberti, Kenya Johns, Roman Kozak, Ashlee Caul and Joshua Kail all won their primaries uncontestedly.
- Marci Mustello won the Democratic primary for position 11 with 63% of votes and Ryan Covert got 37% of votes.
- Robert Vigue won the Democratic primary for position 12 uncontestedly.
- Stephenie Scialabba (incumbent) and Cristian Luna won the Democratic primaries for positions 12 and 13 respectively, with John Lawrence getting 61% of votes and Carmela Ciliberti getting 39% of votes in position 13.
- Anand Patel won the Democratic primary for position 18 uncontestedly.
- Kathleen Tomlinson (incumbent) and Aerion Abney won the Democratic primaries for positions 18 and 19 respectively.
Republican Primaries:
- Matt Strupczewski, Micah Goring, Jake Banta (incumbent), Heather Hanna (incumbent), Eric Weaknecht (incumbent), Brad Roae (incumbent), Parke Wentling (incumbent), Aaron Bernstine (incumbant) and John Lawrence won their primaries uncontestedly.
- Marla Brown, Amen Brown, Kenya Johns and Roman Kozak all won the Republican primaries for positions 9, 10, 14 and 19 respectively.
- Ashlee Caul won the Republican primary for position 15 uncontestedly.
In other news,
- Pennsylvania voters will elect a new attorney general in November. The office has defended the results of the 2020 presidential election against attempts to overturn them. Democrat Josh Shapiro led the major grand jury investigation of Catholic clergy abuse from the office in recent years.
- Representative Summer Lee, a progressive Democrat, won her primary race against Bhavini Patel in Pennsylvania. Her criticism of Israel's military campaign in Gaza drew a primary challenge from a moderate Democrat. About 34,000 people have died in the war in Gaza since it began six months ago.
- President Biden and former President Donald Trump both won their primaries in Pennsylvania shortly after polls closed.