While election day Nov. 5 will feature the contest for president of the U.S, there will be others with a local impact.
The 67th Legislative District of the General Assembly will have a race between longtime incumbent Martin Causer and Democratic challenger Rajeev Pradhan.
Causer, 51, of Turtlepoint, has served since 2003 and is a volunteer emergency medical technician with Port Area Ambulance Service, where he is a life member. Pradhan, 42, a native of Bradford, lives in Port Allegany, and is an imaging tech at UPMC Cole as well as the picture archiving and communication system administrator. The 67th District comprises all of Cameron, McKean and Potter counties.
The 25th Senatorial District will have a race with incumbent Republican Cris Dush, 63, and Democrat William McGill of Clinton County. Both men are veterans. Dush is retired from the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. McGill, semi-retired from the automobile business, was a successful write-in candidate in the primary. The 25th District includes Cameron, Clinton, Elk, Jefferson, McKean, Potter and Tioga counties.
The 15th Congressional District has incumbent Republican Glenn Thompson, 65, of Howard, challenged by Democratic newcomer Zach Womer, 25, of Philipsburg. Thompson has served in the U.S. House since 2019. He had worked in healthcare administration. Womer is in law school.
The 15th district encompasses all of Armstrong, Cameron, Centre, Clarion, Clearfield, Clinton, Elk, Forest, Jefferson, McKean, Potter, Snyder, Tioga, Union and Warren counties and parts of Indiana, Lycoming and Venango counties.
State offices included on the ballot will be treasurer, auditor general and attorney general, as will the race for U.S. senator for Pennsylvania between Democrat incumbent Bob Casey and Republican challenger Dave McCormick.
For state treasurer, the candidates are Republican incumbent Stacy Garrity, Democrat Erin McClelland, Nickolas Ciesielski as Libertarian, Troy Bowman for Constitution Party and Chris Foster of the Forward Party.
The race for auditor general will see the Republican incumbent face Democratic challenger Malcolm Kenyatta, state representative, as well as Libertarian Reece Smith, Eric K. Anton of the American Solidarity Party and Alan Goodrich of the Constitution Party.
The race for attorney general will not include an incumbent, as Acting AG Michelle Henry, a Democrat, is not seeking election to the post, which she had been appointed to when Josh Shapiro was elected governor. Candidates are Democrat Eugene DePasquale, former state auditor general; Democrat Dave Sunday, the York District Attorney; and Libertarian Robert Cowburn, Green Party Richard L. Weiss, Constitution Party Justin L. Magill and Forward Party Eric L. Settle.
In the race for U.S. Senate, along with Casey and McCormick are challengers John C. Thomas for the Libertarian Party, Leila Hazou for the Green Party and Bernard Selker for the Constitution Party.
On the presidential ballot — the one that will have folks turning out in droves Nov. 5 — there are more than the top two parties’ candidates. Democrats Kamala Harris and Tim Walz and Republicans Donald Trump and J.D. Vance are joined on the ballot by Libertarian candidates Chase Oliver for president and Mike Ter Maat for vice president, and Green Party candidates Jill Stein for president and Rudolph Ware for vice president.
