Voters head to the polls to elect mayoral primary candidates in Pennsylvania's biggest cities
Pennsylvania voters head to the polls on Tuesday for the 2025 primary election.
In the first election since Donald Trump won back the White House, Democratic voters across Pennsylvania are selecting who they want to be their mayoral candidates in several of the state’s biggest cities.
After suffering significant defeats in 2024, which included losing a U.S. Senate seat, all three statewide row offices and two congressional districts, the primary races may indicate which direction the Democratic Party will be taking over the next few years.
Most of the state’s largest cities have contested primary elections, with the exception of York, an outlier in this cycle, with only one candidate being on the ballot for mayor. Since most of these cities are Democratic strongholds, the winner of the primary election will likely have an easy path to victory in November. (In Pennsylvania’s closed primary system, only registered Democrats and Republicans can vote in their party’s primaries.)
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