By: Chris Potter
Two special elections for state House took place in Pittsburgh yesterday. Tuesday’s results will send two new faces — those of Martell Covington and Aerion Abney — to Harrisburg. There they will represent two majority-Black districts: the 24th, vacated by Ed Gainey after he became mayor, and the 19th, left by Jake Wheatley when he became Gainey’s chief of staff.
Abney was unopposed in his race for the 19th district seat, and Covington trounced Republican Todd Elliott Koger, who has unsuccessfully sought the seat in the past, by a margin of 16-to-1 in the 24th district.
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