One of the candidates in the race for a seat on the state’s Commonwealth Court conceded the race yesterday as a statewide recount was about to wrap up.
On Wednesday, acting Secretary of State Veronica Degraffenreid announced that all 67 Pennsylvania counties completed the recount of votes for the commonwealth court race. One seat had been filled in that race, and that was Republican Stacy Marie Wallace, but a recount was triggered for the second seat as less than 16,000 votes separated Democrat Lori Dumas and Republican Drew Compton. As the recount was wrapping up, Crompton had already conceded defeat, meaning Dumas won the seat. This means a Democrat has won a commonwealth court seat that was previously occupied by a Republican.
Crompton was appointed by Governor Tom Wolf to fill a court vacancy in 2019. Meanwhile, Dumas has over 18 years of experience as a judge in Philadelphia’s common pleas court.
This marks the fifth time that an automatic recount was triggered. A recount can be automatically triggered if margin of victory is less than one-half of a percentage point.
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