Schuylkill County voters on Tuesday favored one of their own, current county Coroner David Moylan of Auburn, in the race for the U.S. House of Representatives seat representing the 17th Congressional District, although the margin of victory was easily overcome by current Rep. Matt Cartwright of Plains, Lackawanna County.

The Schuylkill voters gave Moylan, a Republican, a 62-37 percent victory with 23,427 votes, compared with the 14,262 votes that Democrat Cartwright amassed.Overall, Cartwright won by a 21,900 margin, claiming re-election to his second two-year term in Washington, D.C. Cartwright defeated former Rep. Tim Holden of St. Clair in the 2012 election.All of Schuylkill County is part of the 17th District, as are parts of Carbon County, including the townships of East Penn, Franklin, Lower Towamensing, Mahoning and Towamensing and the boroughs of Bowmanstown, Jim Thorpe, Lansford, Lehighton, Nesquehoning, Palmerton, Parryville, Summit Hill and Weissport.In Monroe County, voters in the townships of Chestnuthill, Coolbaugh, Eldred, Hamilton, Middle Smithfield, Polk, Ross, Smithfield, Stroud (districts one, five, six and seven), Tobyhanna and Tunkhannock, as well as Delaware Water Gap, are in the districts, as are parts of Northampton, Luzerne and Lackawanna counties.Governor's raceMeanwhile, the county voters went in a different direction in their choice for Pennsylvania governor. Democrat Tom Wolf won the county over incumbent Republican Gov. Tom Corbett. The county vote was 20,541 to 17,167.Pa. House seatsIn otherwise uneventful county balloting, three state representatives who represent different parts of Schuylkill County were all unopposed and received complimentary votes in claiming re-election to two-year terms.In the 123rd District, Rep. Neal P. Goodman of Mahanoy City, a Democrat, collected 11,289 token votes from the electorate.The district 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.In the 124th District, Rep. Jerry Knowles of Hometown, a Republican, received 3,279 votes from county voters in the districts that emcompass 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.That district also includes Summit Hill Borough from Carbon County, where Knowles received 798 complimentary votes, and the townships of Albany, Greenwich, Perry, Tilden and Windsor and the boroughs of Hamburg, Lenhartsville and Shoemakersville, all of Berks County, where his "comp" total was 5,265. In all, Knowles amassed 9,342 votes.In the 125th District, Rep. Mike Tobash of Pottsville, a Republican, tallied 11,472 complimentary votes in the county. 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, participated in that balloting, as did those who live in the townships of Lykens, Mifflin, Washington, Wiconisco and Williams and the boroughs of Berrysburg, Elizabethville, Gratz, Lykens, Pillow and Williamstown, all in Dauphin County. Tobash's Dauphin County complimentary votes totaled 2,541, giving him 14,013 overall.