Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto conceded defeat to state Rep. Ed Gainey in the city’s four-way Democratic primary race for mayor. With 219 of the city’s 402 voting precincts reporting results just after 10:30 p.m., Gainey had received about 44.1% of the votes counted, while Peduto collected 42.4%, retired Pittsburgh police
Pittsburgh Mayoral Race: Gainey Ousts Peduto In Primary Race - Pittsburgh, PA - State Rep. Ed Gainey is poised to become Pittsburgh's first Black mayor.
/ Lisa Middleman says voters embraced a more diverse bench, with new ideas about criminal justice
A bid to reshape Allegheny County’s approach to justice appeared to make real headway on Tuesday evening.
Nine seats were up for grabs on the County’s Common Pleas Court, and unofficial early results showed a reform-minded set of hopefuls were poised to capture five of them. They were: Allegheny County Controller Chelsea Wagner; attorney and former Magistrate Judge Wrenna Watson; local attorney Nicola Henry-Taylor, defense attorney and former District Attorney candidate Lisa Middleman, and Duquesne University clinical law professor Tiffany Sizemore.
The other four top Democratic vote-getters were Sabrina Korbel, Elliot Howsie, Bruce Beemer, and Jessel Costa.
Gainey: Matt Cashore; Peduto and Moreno: Tribune-Review; Thompson: Submitted
Democratic candidates for Pittsburgh mayor are (clockwise from top left): State Rep. Ed Gainey, incumbent Mayor Bill Peduto, Michael Thompson and Tony Moreno.
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Talk of equity and reform unite the men, but each have different approaches to the subject.
The May 18 Democratic primary likely decides the office. The heavily Democratic city hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since the 1930s, and no independent or third-party candidates are on the horizon for the November general election.
Pittsburgh City Council District 2 includes Banksville, Duquesne Heights, Mount Washington, and all West End neighborhoods, such as Chartiers City, Crafton Heights, East Carnegie, Elliott,.