Democrat Josh Maines wins Clearfield County judge race with thin margin over Republican Ryan P. Sayers

Clearfield County voters elected Democrat Josh Maines to be a new judge for the county’s Court of Common Pleas, according to unofficial results.

The race between Maines and his opponent Ryan P. Sayers, a Republican, was close. Unofficial results as of Wednesday morning showed that Maines won 11,065 votes, just 178 more than Sayers’ 10,887 votes — by a less than 1% margin.

“With the margin being less than 200 votes, we know that every effort in this race counted,” Maines said in a Facebook post on his campaign page.

“Whatever you have done to assist this campaign, whether you worked at the polls, talked to your friends, phone banks, [shared] social media posts, etc, it mattered and it was crucial to our success tonight,” he wrote.


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