Election officials from Montgomery County continued to wrap up their count of 23,000 mail-in ballots over the weekend, ending with less than 100 outstanding ballots left to be counted on Monday morning.
With that, unofficial results on the county’s election dashboard show all four incumbent Democrats from North Penn Neighbors for Progress have won reelection over the four candidates comprising the Republican slate of North Penn Stronger Together.
Totals as of 11 a.m. on Nov. 8 are:
As the votes stand, the margin of victory for all the incumbent Dems is beyond the 1%-or-less threshold required for a recount.
With their victory in hand, North Penn Neighbors for Progress issued the following statement via their website:
We are honored & humbled our neighbors have entrusted us to continue our service on the NPSB.
Thank you to everyone who cast their vote in this election, to all our volunteers and supporters throughout this campaign season, and especially to those who worked diligently to ensure every ballot was counted.
This victory would not have been possible without our community's continued commitment to progress. Thank you for sharing this mission with us. Thank you for resisting complacency, remembering that local elections matter, and raising your voice in support of civility and common sense.
The core of our public education system is based on local decision-making, aimed to address the will and needs of the whole community. We recognize that there is room for reasonable disagreement about many aspects of public education and remain committed to consensus and compromise. We will continue to encourage and celebrate a civil discourse with the broader community we have been elected to serve. No one person or group has all of the answers – only working together can we find the right solutions for our community and ensure our schools have the resources to meet every child’s needs.
We remain confident that – no matter our background or beliefs – we all want our children to have an education that imparts honesty, respect, empathy, and courage to stand up for truth and kindness. We must come together to reject divisiveness, embrace our shared goals, and commit ourselves to ensuring NPSD is a place where every child can learn, grow, and thrive.
“We’re eager to get back to work advocating for public education and addressing the issues facing North Penn School District in particular,” added current board President Tina Stoll, when reached for comment over the weekend.
For a period after the polls closed and the ballot counting began on Nov. 2, it looked like the Republican challengers might be able to place at least two of their four candidates onto next year’s North Penn School Board. However, Incumbent Democrats Jonathan Kassa and Al Roesch III were able to ride the wave of mail-in votes — which heavily favored Democrats — to overtake the early leads of challengers Michael Kennedy and Jessie Bradica.
When reached for comment on Sunday, Bradica told North Penn Now that the North Penn Stronger Together campaign will issue a delayed statement sometime on Monday. Bradica and her colleagues previously stated they were committed to stay in the race “until the entire process plays out.”
Editor’s note: A prior version of this article indicated that the vote counts would begin certification on Tuesday. We have since been informed that while the process of verifying the in-person votes and merging them with the vote-by-mail ballots will occur on Tuesday, certification will not occur until provisional ballots are adjudicated and several thousand write-in votes are reviewed and compiled. That process could continue through next week, according to one source.
See also:
Election Update: Levine Wins Reelection Over Hanrahan for District Judge
Election Update: All 4 Incumbent Dems Now Leading North Penn School Board Race
North Penn School Board Candidate Debate Scheduled for Monday, Open to Public
Editorial: In Defense of Civility and Public Service
