Waldron Clinches 4th Dem City Council Nomination

Adam Waldron held on to a narrow primary election margin and took the fourth and final Democratic nomination for Bethlehem City Council, according to unofficial vote totals.

On Thursday, the Northampton County election bureau was able to retrieve the data from a broken voting machine, allowing it to complete its unofficial vote count from Tuesday’s primary election, according to The Express Times.

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Waldron, 29-year-old house painter from West Bethlehem and first-time candidate, completes a Democratic general election ticket that will have incumbents Eric Evans and Karen Dolan, and political newcomer Bryan Callahan—Mayor John Callahan’s older brother.

Chris Morales—best known in Bethlehem as the man who runs the city’s lone street hot dog vending cart—is the only Republican running. No independents have stepped forward.

Waldron finished with 62 more votes than David “Lump” Sanders, the owner of Lump’s Deli on Center Street, according to unofficial final vote totals provided by election bureaus in Northampton and Lehigh counties.

Waldron owes his victory to the strength of his support in his home West Bethlehem, where he had just 37 fewer votes than Evans, the leading vote getter citywide.

Waldron finished last among the six candidates in Northampton County, where he had 200 fewer votes than Steve Melnick, who finished last overall.

The unofficial vote totals:

• Eric Evans: 2,940

• Karen Dolan: 2,902

• Bryan Callahan: 2,429

• Adam Waldron: 2,257

• David "Lump" Sanders: 2,195

• Steve Melnick: 2,114