Special election in Pennsylvania swing county to decide control of state House
ABC News
The results could lend clues about voter sentiment in a key swing state.
BUCKS COUNTY, Pa. -- Voters in a slice of Philadelphia's northern suburbs on Tuesday will decide control of Pennsylvania's House of Representatives state delegation, possibly providing clues about the attitudes of notoriously unpredictable suburban voters ahead of November's presidential election.
The special election to replace a former Democratic lawmaker in the 140th state House district, with its nearly 50,000 voters, is the first significant vote in the swing state, and it comes in Bucks County, where slim electoral margins are the norm, although the district itself is more Democratic than the county overall.
Republican Candace Cabanas, who has worked in health care and hospitality, is running against Democrat Jim Prokopiak, a lawyer and member of the Pennsbury school board.
The winner will break the 101-101 deadlock in the Pennsylvania House (Democrats control the governorship and the state Senate).
