Two contested races in Schuylkill County
If you live in Schuylkill County and want to participate in Tuesday's General Election, only two contested races await your decision.
Voters will have decisions to make in the Pennsylvania governor's race between incumbent Gov. Tom Corbett, a Republican, and Democratic challenger Tom Wolf, as well as the balloting for the 17th Congressional District seat.In that race, U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright, a Democratic incumbent, is facing opposition from Schuylkill County Coroner David Moylan, a Republican.Besides those two contests, there are three Pennsylvania House seats in Schuylkill County that are up for re-election, and in all three of them, the incumbents are unopposed.Rep. Jerry Knowles of Hometown is running unopposed for re-election to the newly designed 124th District, which now includes Summit Hill Borough from Carbon County. In addition to Summit Hill being in the district, so are the townships of Albany, Greenwich, Perry, Tilden and Windsor and the boroughs of Hamburg, Lenhartsville and Shoemakersville, all of Berks County; the townships of East Brunswick, East Union, Kline, North Union, Rush, Schuylkill, Union, Walker, West Brunswick and West Penn; and the boroughs of Coaldale, Deer Lake, McAdoo, New Ringgold, Orwigsburg, Port Clinton, Ringtown and Tamaqua, all in Schuylkill County.The other two incumbents who are unopposed are Rep. Neal P. Goodman of Mahanoy City, a Democrat seeking re-election in the 123rd District, and Rep. Mike Tobash of Pottsville, a Republican seeking another term in the 125th District.The 123rd District is totally in Schuylkill County and includes the boroughs of Ashland, Frackville, Gilberton, Girardville, Gordon, Mahanoy City, Mechanicsville, Middleport, Minersville, Mount Carbon, New Philadelphia, Palo Alto, Port Carbon, Shenandoah, Saint Clair; the first, second, fourth, fifth and sixth wards of the City of Pottsville; and the townships of Blythe, Branch, Butler, Cass, Delano, East Norwegian, Foster, Mahanoy, New Castle, Reilly, Ryan and West Mahanoy.The 125th District includes parts of Schuylkill and Dauphin counties, including the townships of Lykens, Mifflin, Washington, Wiconisco and Williams and the boroughs of Berrysburg, Elizabethville, Gratz, Lykens, Pillow and Williamstown, all in Dauphin County; and wards three and seven of the City of Pottsville, the townships of Barry, Eldred, Frailey, Hegins, Hubley, North Manheim, Norwegian, Pine Grove, Porter, South Manheim, Tremont, Upper Mahantongo, Washington and Wayne and the boroughs of Auburn, Cressona, Landingville, Pine Grove, Schuylkill Haven, Tower City and Tremont, all in Schuylkill County.There is a new composition of the 29th senatorial District, where Sen. David Argall is the officeholder, although he is not up for re-election this time around. The new 29th District includes the townships of Albany, Bethel, Greenwich, Heidelberg, Jefferson, Lower Heidelberg, Maidencreek, Marion, North Heidelberg, Ontelaunee, Penn, Perry, South Heidelberg, Spring, Tilden, Tulpehocken, Upper Bern, Upper Tulpehocken and Windsor and the boroughs of Adamstown (Berks County portion), Bernville, Hamburg, Lenhartsville, Robesonia, Shoemakersville, Sinking Spring, Strausstown, Wernersville and Womelsdorf, all in Berks County, as well as all of Schuylkill County.