2024

General election

General election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 61

Incumbent Liz Hanbidge and Michelle Rupp are running in the general election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 61 on November 5, 2024.

	Liz Hanbidge (D)
	Michelle Rupp (R)

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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 61

Incumbent Liz Hanbidge advanced from the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 61 on April 23, 2024.

Liz Hanbidge

100.0%

3,950 Votes✔

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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 61

Michelle Rupp advanced from the Republican primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 61 on April 23, 2024.

Michelle Rupp

100.0%

1,224 Votes✔

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2017

Five seats on the North Penn School District school board were up for general election on November 7, 2017. Four seats were up for regular election and one seat was up for special election for a two-year term, due to the death of former board member Carolyn Murphy. A partisan primary election for all five seats was held on May 16, 2017.

A total of eight candidates ran in the general election for the regular terms after all of them advanced from the primary. Four newcomer Democrats won the spots on the board: Christian Fusco, Jonathan Kassa, Tina Stoll, and Mark Warren. Board incumbents Josephine Charnock, Patrick McGee Jr., and Frank O'Donnell cross-filed to run for re-election for both the Democratic and Republican parties in the primary election. They were joined on the ballot by newcomers Fusco, Kassa, Thomas Mancini, Stoll, and Warren, who all cross-filed to run in the primary election. Stoll, Fusco, Warren, and Kassa took the Democratic nominations for the four-year terms, and O'Donnell, Mancini, McGee, and Charnock took the Republican nominations.

In the special election for the two-year term, Jenna Ott defeated Michelle Rupp in the general. Ott won the Democratic nomination and Rupp won the Republican nomination in the primary.

These candidates could have faced independent candidates in the general election. However, no independent candidate filed by the August 1, 2017, deadline to get on the ballot.

McGee Jr., Mancini, O'Donnell, Charnock, and Rupp ran as part of a candidate slate.

General results

North Penn School District, At-Large Special Election, 2-year term, 2017
Party	Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Democratic	Jenna Ott	55.84%	9,893
Republican	Michelle Rupp	44.16%	7,824
Total Votes			17,717
Source: Bucks County, "Municipal Election Tuesday, November 7, 2017," accessed November 8, 2017 and Montgomery County, "Unofficial Results," accessed November 8, 2017 These election results are unofficial and will be updated after official vote totals are made available.

Democratic primary results

North Penn School District, At-Large Democratic Primary Special Election, 2-year term, 2017
Party	Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Democratic	Jenna Ott	80.49%	3,582
Democratic	Michelle Rupp	19.51%	868
		Write-in votes	0%	0
Total Votes			4,450
Source: Bucks County, "Bucks County Election Results," accessed June 20, 2017 and Montgomery County, "2017 Primary Election Official Results," accessed June 20, 2017

Republican primary results

North Penn School District, At-Large Republican Primary Special Election, 2-year term, 2017
Party	Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Republican	Michelle Rupp	62.20%	2,258
Republican	Jenna Ott	37.71%	1,369
		Write-in votes	0.08%	3
Total Votes			3,630
Source: Bucks County, "Bucks County Election Results," accessed June 20, 2017 and Montgomery County, "2017 Primary Election Official Results," accessed June 20, 2017

Funding

School board candidates in Pennsylvania were required to report their campaign finance activity. Those who spent or received more than $250 in a reporting period had to file full reports. Those below the threshold had to file forms to declare they were exempt from reporting. Candidates could have, but were not required to, form committees to handle campaign finance transactions. They were not required to have separate bank accounts for campaign purposes.

The table to the left details the four campaign finance deadlines in 2017.