Houghton Takes Parkesburg, Drops District Race

On election day 2010 Parkesburg residents said thank you and goodbye, for now, to Representative Tom Houghton.  As the town's representative in Harrisburg for the last 2 years, Houghton had worked tirelessly to bring economic development to the Octorara Region and curb escalating property taxes.

In a year where Republicans carried Parkesburg, albeit narrowly, Representative Tom Houghton eaked out a narrow 37 vote victory over his Republican challenger John Lawrence.  The margin however, was not enough to lift Houghton to a district wide victory in a seat he won for the first time two years ago.  When all the ballots were counted Houghten came up 2,123 votes short.

Houghton's work ethic, his ability to bring people together to work towards common goals and objectives all the while remaining above the dirty game of politics, will be missed in Parkesburg.  I suspect we haven't seen the last of him!

Here are the election result from last week:

Straight Party Vote
	Parkesburg N	Parkesburg S	Total
Democratic	89	173	262
Republican	83	176	259
United States Senate
	Parkesburg N	Parkesburg S	Total
Joe Sestak (D)	148	297	445
Pat Toomey ( R)	154	297	451
Governor
	Parkesburg N	Parkesburg S	Total
Dan Onorato (D)	141	282	423
To Corbett ( R)	160	311	471
US House of Representative
	Parkesburg N	Parkesburg S	Total
Lois Herr (D)	132	271	403
Joe Pitts ( R)	170	326	496
PA Legislator - 13th District
	Parkesburg N	Parkesburg S	Total
Tom Houghton (D)	158	311	469
John Lawrence ( R)	144	288	432