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Shapiro: 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% >90% Mastriano: 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% >90% Tie: 40–50% 50% No data | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2022 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 2022, to elect the governor of Pennsylvania and lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania. Democratic state attorney general Josh Shapiro defeated Republican state senator Doug Mastriano to win his first term in office. Shapiro succeeded Democratic incumbent Tom Wolf, who was term limited.
Pennsylvania only voted for President Joe Biden by 1.2% in 2020 and many Republicans were hopeful that they could pick up the governorship. In the primaries on May 17, 2022, Shapiro won the Democratic nomination after running unopposed and Mastriano won the Republican nomination with 44% of the vote. After his primary win, the far-right Mastriano had trouble fundraising, made few media appearances, committed multiple gaffes, and was accused of antisemitism against Shapiro.[1][2][3][4][5][6] Shapiro defeated Mastriano by almost 15 points, a margin consistent with most polls. Shapiro's landslide victory did not come as a surprise to many political pundits, despite many of them predicting a favorable environment for Republicans.[7]
Shapiro scored the largest margin for a non-incumbent candidate for Pennsylvania governor since 1946,[8][9] and his victory marked the first time since 1844 that the Democratic Party won three consecutive gubernatorial elections in Pennsylvania. Shapiro also made history by earning the most votes of any gubernatorial candidate in the state's history, garnering just over three million votes. Austin Davis was elected lieutenant governor, and became the second African American elected to statewide office in the state's history, following Timothy DeFoor in 2020.
Shapiro's large margin of victory has been widely credited with helping down-ballot Democrats in concurrent elections.
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