Hanbidge Vs. Bradica: PA 61st Legislative District Results

Editor's Note: This story was updated just before 10 on Wednesday morning.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, PA — It is the morning after the mid-term election, and unofficial results in the 61st Legislative District race show that incumbent Democratic State Rep. Liz Hanbidge is poised to prevail over her Republican challenger, Jessie Bradica.

As of just before 10 a.m. on Wednesday, unofficial results provided by the Pennsylvania Department of State showed Hanbidge with 21,163 votes and Bradica with 13,021 votes.

All results are still unofficial due to outstanding mail-in and provisional ballots that still needed to be counted.

The following is from our earlier story:

In Pennsylvania's 61st Legislative District race, Democratic incumbent State Rep. Liz Hanbidge was attempting to fend off a challenge by Republican candidate Jessie Bradica.

As of 10:30 p.m., unofficial results from the Pennsylvania Department of State showed Hanbidge in the lead with 8,898 votes to Bradica's vote count of 2,343.

The numbers are expected to change as more results start to pour in throughout the night.

More information about the respective candidates can be found in the above web links.

The 61st House District encompasses Upper Gwynedd, Lower Gwynedd, and Towamencin Townships, North Wales Borough, and portions of Whitpain Township.

Election returns are expected to start coming in for this and other state and federal races throughout the night on Tuesday following the closure of polls, but even unofficial results are not anticipated to be ready by night's end due to a laborious process to count mail-in ballots since Pennsylvania recently greatly expanded mail-in voting.

While many results likely won't be ready by Tuesday evening in Pennsylvania, in the coming days Patch will bring you up to date information about the results in state and local election races.

Disclaimer: All election results reported on Tuesday night are unofficial and totals may change. State election officials say it could take days for actual, official results to be tallied, due to things like mail-in voting. And it then takes 20 days after the election for Pennsylvania to certify its results.