Category: default || By jt3y

I can only describe it as stunned disbelief --- the feeling of gloom that settled over the Tube City Online Laboratories last night as the election results came in. Based on carefully calculated results from our head researcher, Dr. Pica Pole, we went out on a limb Tuesday and predicted a big upset victory in the Picksberg Democratic mayoral primary for Louis "Hop" Kendrick.

It wasn't until about 11 p.m. that Dr. Pole and his crack assistant, Spike Nutgraf, discovered what had happened --- apparently, Dr. Pole had mixed up his formula for estimating election returns with his formula for converting Celsius to Fahrenheit. That explains why he had Kendrick winning by a margin of nine-fifths plus 32 over his nearest competitor. (Frankly, we should have realized something was wrong when Dr. Pole had the row office reform referendum passing by a margin of 20 "degrees.")

On behalf of Dr. Pole, my sincerest apologies. He's taking the rest of the week off to, as he puts it, "see how I can blame this on Nutgraf."

In other news, in complete but unofficial returns from the Allegheny County Division of Elections, it looks like Our Fair City will have at least one new councilman. Democrat Paul Shelly was leading the field with 1,616 votes last night. Incumbents Dale McCall and Darryl Segina were in second and third place, respectively, while it seems as if incumbent Ann Stromberg lost her bid for the nomination. No Republicans were filed. (UPDATE: Duh. It just dawned on me that I completely screwed up the McKeesport school board results by forgetting to add in the votes from South Versailles, Versailles and White Oak. Sorry. Corrected totals will follow later today.)

Over in South Allegheny, it looks as if incumbent school directors Naomi Rosche and Doris Bailley lost their bids for re-election. Returns from the Allegheny County Division of Elections indicate that the Democratic nominees were Louis Borrelli, incumbent Dino DeFelice, Raymond Luppe and Pete Miller, while the Republican nominees are Borrelli, DeFelice, Luppe and incumbent Kurt Betzner.

In the new magisterial district that covers both the City of Clairton and the South Allegheny communities of Port Vue, Liberty and Glassport, District Judge Armand Martin of Clairton appears to have captured both the Republican and Democratic nominations. Complete but unofficial returns show Martin with 2,499 Democratic votes, followed by Gabe Pediconi, Luke Riley and George Adams, while Martin had 183 Republican votes, followed by Riley, Pediconi and Adams. Martin has been the district judge for Clairton for several years, but the three boroughs on the opposite side of the Clairton bridge were added to his district when Ed Burnett retired. Naturally, he was helped by the wide margins he ran up in his hometown of Clairton --- 3-to-1 among Republicans and 5-to-1 among Democrats --- but he also won the largest share of Democratic votes in both Port Vue and Glassport. (Riley, an SA school director and longtime police chief in Liberty, easily won in that borough, as might be expected.)

Links to election returns from all Mon-Yough area communities follow below.

2005 Mon-Yough Primary Results

Allegheny County: Braddock | Braddock Hills | Chalfant | Churchill | Clairton | Dravosburg | Duquesne | East McKeesport | East Pittsburgh | Edgewood | Elizabeth Borough | Elizabeth Township | Forest Hills | Forward Township | Glassport | Homestead | Liberty | Lincoln | McKeesport | Monroeville | Munhall | North Braddock | North Versailles Township | Pitcairn | Pleasant Hills | Port Vue | Rankin | South Versailles Township (Coulter) | Swissvale | Trafford (Allegheny County portion) | Turtle Creek | Versailles | Wall | West Elizabeth | West Homestead | West Mifflin | Whitaker | White Oak | Wilkins Township | Wilmerding.

Washington County: Countywide summary (Community results not yet available.)

Westmoreland County: Irwin, Ward 1 | Irwin, Ward 2 | Irwin, Ward 3 | Irwin, Ward 4 | Irwin, Ward 5 | Irwin, Ward 6 | Irwin, Ward 7 | Manor | North Irwin | North Huntingdon Township, 1 1 |
North Huntingdon Township, 1 2 | North Huntingdon Township, 1 3 | North Huntingdon Township, 1 4 | North Huntingdon Township, 2 1 | North Huntingdon Township, 2 2 | North Huntingdon Township, 2 3 | North Huntingdon Township, 3 1 | North Huntingdon Township, 3 2 | North Huntingdon Township, 4 1 | North Huntingdon Township, 4 2 | North Huntingdon Township, 4 3 | North Huntingdon Township, 4 4 | North Huntingdon Township, 5 1 | North Huntingdon Township, 5 2 | North Huntingdon Township, 5 3 | North Huntingdon Township, 6 1 | North Huntingdon Township, 6 2 | North Huntingdon Township, 6 3 | North Huntingdon Township, 6 4 | North Huntingdon Township, 7 1 | North Huntingdon Township, 7 2 | North Huntingdon Township, 7 3 | North Huntingdon Township, 7 4 | Rostraver Township, Collinsburg | Rostraver Township, Concord | Rostraver Township, Cross Road | Rostraver Township, Fellsburg | Rostraver Township, Lynnwood | Rostraver Township, Pricedale | Rostraver Township, Van Meter | Rostraver Township, Webster | Sewickley Township, East Herminie | Sewickley Township, Lowber | Sewickley Township, Rillton | Sewickley Township, Sewickley Township, | Sewickley Township, West Herminie | Sewickley Township, Whyel | Sutersville | Trafford, District 1 (Westmoreland County portion) | Trafford, District 2 (Westmoreland County portion) | West Newton, Ward 1 | West Newton, Ward 2 | West Newton, Ward 3