Iovino held 53.7 percent of the vote as of 10:20 p.m., compared to 46.3 percent for Raja, with 94 percent of all precincts reporting.
Bellwether election in Pittsburgh suburb won by Democrat
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APR 02, 2019 | 11:03 PM
Democrats claimed victory Tuesday after a two-month campaign for a vacant state Senate seat in politically divided suburban Pittsburgh where the sides tested some national themes ahead of 2020's presidential election in a critical battleground state narrowly won by President Donald Trump.
The seat had been largely controlled by Republicans the past half-century, but the district is viewed as increasingly friendly to Democrats in territory that party strategists now view as something of a bellwether.
The winner, Democrat Pam Iovino, told her enthusiastic victory party at a union hall at Pittsburgh's western edge that the district "is blue again" and worked her way through the crowd, hugging supporters.
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