Democrat Josh Shapiro has been elected Pennsylvania’s next Governor with Austin Davis as lieutenant governor, although Republican Doug Mastriano did not concede Tuesday night.
Shapiro had 54.42 percent of the vote, or 2,571,668 votes, at the time his victory was called. Mastriano 43.74 percent, or 2,067,092 votes.
In what felt like a concession speech, Mastriano told supporters 30 percent of votes were not yet counted and he was going to wait it out.
Shapiro’s four-year term will lengthen Democrat rule in the executive office to 12 years. Current Democrat Gov. Tom Wolf is completing his second term. Eight years is the limit in Pennsylvania.
With a Republican-led state House and Senate, Shapiro will surely continue Wolf’s trend of vetoing much of the legislation that comes out of the Republican General Assembly….