The story in the media will be that national discontent with the Republican party seems to have cooled a little too much to carry over into these local races. With varying percentages of the votes counted, it looks the GOP will retain control of the Commissioner's Office in Bucks, Chester and Montgomery Counties and keep their unanimity on Delaware County Council.
The Delco website is a little difficult to interpret since it's broken down into each borough and township and doesn't provide a definitive countywide count, but as far as I can tell, the numbers look like this:
Democrat David LANDAU 39,480
Democrat Ann M. O'KEEFE 38,206
Democrat John F. INNELLI 36,099
Republican Christine FIZZANO CANNON 56,153
Republican Thomas J. MCGARRIGLE 53,901
Republican Andy LEWIS 52,891
So far, it looks like the three Republicans will fill the three contested seats on county council, shutting out the Democrats.
In Montgomery County, Joe Hoeffel may be returning to a position he is familiar with, having served as the minority commissioner for two terms in the 1990s:
40.05% reporting
Rep - Bruce Castor 31,594 or 27.28%
Rep - Jim Matthews 29,224 or 25.23%
Dem - Joseph M. Hoeffel 28,709 or 24.79%
Dem - Ruth S. Damsker 26,285 or 22.69%
Top three move take it with control going to the party that gets the top two.
In Chester County, a similar story:
WITH 53 OF 224 PRECINCTS COUNTED (23.66%)
CAROL AICHELE (REP) . . . . . . . 8,656 or 29.38%
TERENCE FARRELL (REP) . . . . . . 7,795 or 26.46%
KATHI COZZONE (DEM) . . . . . . . 6,742 or 22.88%
BILL SCOTT (DEM) . . . . . . . . 6,253 or 21.22%
And the same in Buxco:
123 Districts Reported of 308 (40%)
Jim Cawley (R) 21310 or 26.4%
Diane Marseglia (D) 19925 or 24.7%
Charles H. Martin (R) 19115 or 23.7%
Steve Santarsiero (D) 18013 or 22.4%
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