Beaver County elected Democrat Lincoln Kretchmar as its new mayor Tuesday, ending a 113-year losing streak in the Pennsylvania commonwealth.

In the final days of the campaign, President Donald Trump and Barack Obama weighed in on the Pennsylvania race, which drew national attention and spending.

All three Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices who sought reelection will get another term, ensuring Democratic jurists keep their majority on the presidential battleground state’s highest court.

A Republican has been ousted in a Pennsylvania borough that has voted for Republican Party presidential candidates for 113 years. Beaver County elected Democratic Lincoln Kretchmar as the new mayor on November 4. In doing so, the Democrats broke the GOP 's 113 year winning streak in the borough.

Turnout approached nearly half the number of votes cast in last year’s presidential election — an unprecedented campus showing for an off-cycle election year.

The hotly contested Bucks County races centered around some of the most contentious issues in national politics – Trump, crime and immigration.

For a day, at least, beleaguered Democrats are hopeful again. But just beneath the party's relief at securing its first big electoral wins since last November’s drubbing lay unresolved questions about its direction heading into next year’s midterm elections.

Pennsylvania is considered a purple state, but last night’s election results were blue. Well-funded and well-known Democrats won their races, so did poorly-funded and lesser-known ones. In 2025, an “R” after some candidates’ names stood for real trouble.