In what some have said was the most expensive judicial race in U.S. history, all three Democratic candidates for Pennsylvania Supreme Court emerged with comfortable victories in the general election Tuesday, results that political observers said were spurred on by disproportionate fundraising and strong turnout in Philadelphia and Allegheny County.
Superior Court Judges David N. Wecht and Christine L. Donohue and Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Administrative Judge Kevin Dougherty each cleared 1 million votes, with no Republican candidate breaking 900,000, according to unofficial election returns from the Pennsylvania Department of State. Dougherty got 18.5 percent of the vote, Wecht got 18.4 percent and Donohue received 18.2 percent. That was enough to elect them to the three open seats on the seven-member court.
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