May 2010 Penna Primary Election Results

May 20, 2010

8th WARD RESULTS of May 18 2010 DEMOCRATIC Primary Election

US Senate Incumbent upset; 8th Ward State Representative Incumbent wins again; MORE!

By by Bill Marston LEED AP

Center City's 8th Ward voting results show that we supported the candidates endorsed by Neighborhood Networks citywide: Joe Hoeffel - governor; Joe Sestak - US senator; Babette Josephs - state representative. We also voted overwhelmingly for Philadelphian Jonathan Saidel for lieutenant governor.

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STATE REPRESENTATIVE

Our 8th Ward voted for state rep incumbent Babette Josephs (182nd State Legislative District) over challenger Gregg Kravitz about 61% to 39%.

UNITED STATES SENATE

As I'm sure everyone knows by now, Joe Sestak won over incumbent Arlen Specter statewide. Interestingly, however, the 8th Ward just barely voted the opposite - for Specter over Sestak.

50.05% *SPECTER, ARLEN
49.92% SESTAK, JOE

LT. GOVERNOR

Unsurprisingly, our 8th Ward chose someone familiar to us, past Controller Saidel:

72.74% *SAIDEL, JONATHAN A
17.09% SMITH RIBNER, DORIS A
10.17% CONKLIN, H SCOTT

GOVERNOR

Our 8th Ward voted for Joe Hoeffel, although he did not win statewide:

Election Category: GOVERNOR-Dem
TOTAL 8th WARD COUNT so far is 83.33% (25 of 30 Precincts Completed).
* Winner in this Ward:

37.25 % *HOEFFEL, JOSEPH M
32.16 % ONORATO, DAN
18.49 % WILLIAMS, ANTHONY HARDY
12.10 % WAGNER, JACK

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