Allegheny County Primary Election Results: Commitment 2025
Now back to our election coverage. Less than an hour ago, the AP projecting Corey O’Connor as the winner over incumbent Mayor Ed Gay. The race called within this last hour. Reporter Sheldon Ingram is talking with Corey O’Connor right now. Let’s listen in. Money on *** national search for. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you guys. Alright, thank you. We’ll hear more from O’Connor later in this broadcast. Yeah, definitely to Pittsburgh South side, where incumbent mayor Ed Gay is holding his watch party and conceded just before 11 o’clock. Reporter Kayleigh Gunterson has been there all night. Kayleigh, what has been the reaction since this projected loss? Well Chris and Mike, it was certainly disappointing. He was very obvious about that. He said, you know, it was *** hard loss, but he did urge his supporters in the room to not take this as *** defeat, but just to further light their fire for the movement that he says his administration created over the past *** little over 3 years. He did come out first though and congratulate Corey O’Connor. Listen to what he said. So of course we gonna congratulate Corey O’Connor. Of course we gonna do that. Because let me tell you what you’ve helped to build. The level of scrutiny and pressure you know about it that I went through in this administration has never been through. And for us to be able to stand tall and change the game in the midst of multiple storms in order to move this city forward. Mayor Gay did not talk about his record so much or the things that he says his administration has accomplished over the last few years, but he really just handed out *** lot of thank yous and gratitude to the people who supported him throughout this race. He mentioned the young people who went door to door knocking, trying to reach voters, more young people than he had seen, you know, in this city in the past, involved in that kind of work. He also talked to. *** movement launched under this campaign that his campaign described as *** multiracial, multi-generational movement. They noted that this is the same movement that got Congresswoman Summer Lee elected and county executive Sarah Emerao, so they said despite this loss, that movement remains, and they feel that it is stronger than ever. Now Gainey, afterwards we got to talk to him one on one. We got to ask him about. Some of the things that may have gone wrong in this campaign to end up with this result, some of the things that he felt they did well, and of course *** lot of the things that he’s very proud of from his record. You can hear directly from him tomorrow morning right here on Channel 4. For now I’ll send it back to you guys. All right, Kayleigh, thank you. We do want to get back to Sheldon Ingraham. Sheldon, we just saw you speaking with Corey O’Connor. Uh, what was he saying? Well, Corey O’Connor said *** lot. Corey O’Connor said *** lot to us tonight. First of all, he said that. He still has to win the election in the fall, but the number one priority for Corey O’Connor, as he just spoke with us, is first trying to address the city’s financial crisis, beefing up the police department to make it large enough to serve the people of Pittsburgh and finding *** new police chief, and he also stressed that he wants to bring more transparency. To the role of mayor, so he’s very excited about winning the Democratic nomination tonight and at this gathering, this watch party, it was an enormous crowd here. He was supported by several unions throughout the city as well as *** lot of prominent business owners here in the city of Pittsburgh. He also had the support. Here in the group of political leaders such as State Senator Wayne Fontana and State Representative Dan Franco, there are *** number of city council people here supporting him as well. Bobby Wilson, Teresa Smith, as well as Anthony Cargill. So he has the support of *** lot of people, and they were very happy to see him win this nomination. After he spoke to the crowd, he spoke with us, but here’s *** little bit of what he said with the audience um as soon as he took the podium to accept this nomination. I entered this race with *** simple message that Pittsburgh deserves better. I looked around the city as *** father of two young kids, and I was concerned, concerned about the rise in crime, concerned about the lack of growth and opportunity, concerned about the looming financial crisis. I want my kids to raise their families here like my wife Katie and I are doing. I want you to raise your kids and your grandkids here because our message has always been that Pittsburgh should be every family’s first choice. And so that was what Bobby Corey O’Connor spoke with us earlier. Now his father served as mayor of Pittsburgh. He only served briefly for six months before unfortunately passing away. I asked him what did he learn from his father during his time as *** city council member and his short time during mayor. He says that he learned that neighborhoods and families in Pittsburgh matter first, and that is how he was carrying out. His campaign again he told me earlier today that if he is elected mayor of the city of Pittsburgh, he wants to address the city’s financial crisis. He wants to address the police department of finding *** new chief, building up the force that there are enough police officers to serve the city, and he wants to develop *** culture of transparency in the office of mayor. Also, he says that he and current mayor. are friends, and they spoke this evening and they will have more conversations in the future about the transition of power if Corey O’Connor is elected mayor of Pittsburgh in the fall. We’re now reporting live, Sheldon Negro on Pittsburgh’s Action News for. All right, Sheldon, thank you. And as you heard earlier in the broadcast, the AP projected Tony Moreno, the winner of the Republican primary, securing more than 1000 more votes than His opponent Thomas West reporter Jordan Syoppa is live at Moreno’s watch party in Jordan, *** celebratory night for the former Pittsburgh police officer. Yeah, Mike Tony Moreno taking home the win tonight. He delivered *** victory speech about an hour ago saying he spoke to Thomas West’s, uh, campaign who congratulated him. Now Moreno’s message tonight it’s time to take back, uh, bring back accountability and transparency to the city of Pittsburgh. Now the former Pittsburgh police officer said tonight it’s also time to build public safety back to the strength and pride it deserves and vowed to clean Pittsburgh streets. Moreno has hopes Pittsburgh could be the headquarters of artificial intelligence, data storage, and bitcoin mining, in turn creating. More jobs in the city. Moreno was the first Republican to announce his candidacy in the mayoral race, making his second bid for Pittsburgh, marking his second bid for Pittsburgh mayor. Moreno lost the race to Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Ganey in 2021. This November, he’s up against Corey O’Connor. We’re going to Make sure our public works is built. We’re gonna make sure the Columbus statue is recognized and taken care of. We’re gonna make sure our parks are taken care of. We’re gonna make sure our money is spent appropriately. We’re gonna make sure everybody in the communities are living the lives that they want to live. It doesn’t matter what party you represent. This is the lives of Pittsburghers that we’re dealing with here. Now, uh, Moreno, uh, congratulated O’Connor and Gainey on his historic term as mayor, but he said it’s time to move on from that part of history, reporting live in Brookline. I’m Jordan Sao of Pittsburgh’s Action News for. Jordan, thank you again on the Republican side, Thomas West conceded about one hour ago. Tony Moreno claiming victory. Here’s what West had to say. I love the city and our best days are ahead if we allow them to be ahead, and I just want to say that I will be *** part of moving the city forward. I don’t know what capacity, but I am looking forward to having better days in the city of Pittsburgh. And again, I want to thank everyone for coming out and like I said, hold your elected leaders, no matter who they are accountable. It has to happen. More election coverage still ahead. Stay tuned for our conversation with election experts breaking down the results of tonight’s races. *** severe weather alert day tomorrow we’ll have heavy rain off and on in the morning and then again as we go into the afternoon and evening hours, the potential for some thunderstorms later on and rainfall amounts 1 inch up to 3 inches of rain that could lead to some flooding. There is *** flood watch that is in effect. We’ll talk all about that, cover how much rain is going to fall in your neighborhood. That’s coming up in just *** few minutes. Welcome back. Heavy rain expected in our area tomorrow impacts to both your morning and evening commutes. Our severe weather alert day forecast in just *** few minutes. But right now, more commitment 2025 coverage. Incumbent Mayor Ed Ganey conceding that in the Democratic primary tonight. Yeah, we want to go back to reporter Kayle Gunderson. She has been there at, uh, Gainey’s watch party all night, and Kaylee, we’re told you are now joined by Ed Gay right now. Yes, Mayor Gainey joining me. He’s trying to get *** sip of water, so he, he might have to wait just *** minute. Um, all right, just tell me, how, how are you feeling after conceding this race? I feel good I feel good. I feel very good. Did you see this room tonight? I feel good. It was packed with *** lot of supporters. It was packed with the city that we wanna see. I mean, you know, you’ve seen it yourself, young, old, black, white, Latinos, straight LGBTQIA. Jew, Palestine, Christian, Muslim, that’s the city that we’ve been talking about and we’re gonna continue to push that narrative. And you have about 6 months left then in office. What do you want your legacy to be as Pittsburgh’s mayor? The ability to bring people together from multiple different backgrounds and ethnics and races and building *** city where everybody believes that they belong, that won’t stop in office or out of office. It won’t never stop. It’s *** city that we started and you’ve seen it tonight. I’ve never seen *** multiracial multigenerational gathering like that in all my political career. It was amazing. Is there anything you can say in this campaign that went wrong, anything you think got us to the result we have tonight? No, it was about again I kept saying it was about do you want change for tomorrow or do you want to hold on to yesterday? That’s what this battle was about, you know, um, you’ve heard them ask me about the negative ads and what I thought about them and I told you it was not my intent to go negative. It was my attempt to remain positive. I can’t change the game and be the same person. You know what I mean if you’re gonna do things that’s gonna move people forward then the messages has to be more positive and that’s what we did we went on the positivity and that was the difference in the race, the negativity versus the positivity. What was your message tonight to voters supporters as they, you know, prepare to welcome *** new mayor? Oh, thank you and be kind. Anything else you want to say? That’s it. That’s it. Two things right there. Thank you so much, Mayor. Thank you. All right, that was Mayor Gainey, as you heard, and we got to talk to him also, uh, right after he got off the stage when that reaction was so very fresh, learning that he had lost this primary election to Corey O’Connor. He thank thanked him, congratulated him from the stage, also shared some more thoughts. More than what you just heard right there about the campaign and about what’s next, and his last 6 months in office, so we’ll have that for you, of course, on WTAE.com reporting live in the South Side, Kaylee Gunderson, Pittsburgh’s Action News for. All right, Kayleigh, thank you there. Well, *** short time ago, Corey O’Connor spoke to reporter Sheldon Ingram. Here’s what he had to say after declaring victory in the Democratic primary. We got to get through the fall, but you know I think there’s *** lot on there looking at the finances, you know, working with our larger corporations so that they work with us, our nonprofits, you know, investing in our fleet, getting *** chief of police, obviously we have to hire staff as well, so there’s *** lot to do, but we have to win in the fall. So we want to get some insight on all of this. Anchor Shannon Peran has been talking with political experts here in Pittsburgh about this primary election. Shannon, this is the first time in *** long time that Republicans have fielded two candidates in *** primary for Pittsburgh mayor, right? That’s right. The last time there was *** Republican mayor in Pittsburgh. FDR was president in 1933. The former chair of the Allegheny County Republican Committee visited our studios tonight to tell me tonight’s win by Tony Moreno shows his party is gaining momentum in *** heavily blue town. So the fact that we had *** Republican candidate in the last cycle and now we have 2 in an actual primary this cycle shows that we’re making progress. We’re still not where we want to be, but we are making progress and we will be able to give the voters *** choice in November as to the future direction of the city of Pittsburgh. Professor Doctor Kristen Kuy, for some insight into this very interesting primary in the city of Pittsburgh for the first time in *** long time, like you said, we’ve got the Republicans fielding two candidates in *** primary. What does that mean in *** town where the Democrats outnumber the Republicans more than 5 to 1? Is it going to impact what the issues are that we talk about in the fall? I think the fact that you have *** Republican challenger against *** New Democratic candidate will mean that there’s going to be *** lot of issues looked at. We’re not running on an incumbent record right now. You’re going to have two candidates who are fresh to the game and we’ll be able to see what their visions are, and each candidate is going to be able to challenge the other on what their ultimate idea is for how the city of Pittsburgh should be run. And you think the same issues of pocketbook issues, public safety are going to be tops. Absolutely, um, people usually care about the same issues regardless of the office or the candidates that are running and so people want to see that their concerns are being met and especially, you know, we just voted out an incumbent mayor in the primary it’s going to be looking at what he did that voters were disappointed in that didn’t get him reelected as well. All right, Doctor Kristin Kopy here with us tonight giving us some expert analysis we’re gonna send it back to you in the studio.
Allegheny County Primary Election Results: Commitment 2025
RESULTS: MAIN PAGE | PITTSBURGH MAYOR | ALLEGHENY COUNTY | ARMSTRONG COUNTY | BEAVER COUNTY | BUTLER COUNTY | FAYETTE COUNTY | GREENE COUNTY | LAWRENCE COUNTY | WASHINGTON COUNTY | WESTMORELAND COUNTYWith many races across Allegheny County on Election Day, Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 has you covered. Below you’ll find only contested results as they come into the newsroom, from county races to municipalities and the Pittsburgh mayoral race.Below you will find the following categories: Pittsburgh’s Mayoral RacePittsburgh Special Election QuestionsAllegheny County JudgesAllegheny County Council Municipalities A – HMunicipalities M – WPITTSBURGH MAYORAL RACEPittsburgh voters will decide on a new mayor in November after Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey was defeated on the democratic ticket by Allegheny County Controller Corey O’Connor.”Your voices, and your calls for accountable leadership and growth have been heard in this democratic primary,” O’Connor said during his victory speech at Nova Place in Pittsburgh Tuesday night.O’Connor said that as the November election approaches, he will continue to work with the people of Pittsburgh to ensure it becomes a place in which families feel safe to settle.On the Republican ballot, retired police officer Tony Moreno defeated Pittsburgh business owner Thomas West.Moreno said he will now be one step closer to helping the Pittsburgh community come together as one and make the region safer for everyone.”We’ve won twice, and this next one, we are going to speak the community’s voice for them,” Moreno said. “It’s time to bring back accountability and transparency in the city of Pittsburgh.”He continued, saying, “We’re going to build our public safety back to the pride that it deserves.”For more on O’Connor’s win, click here.For more on Monreno’s win, click here.If you don’t see results above, click here.PITTSBURGH SPECIAL ELECTION QUESTIONSALLEGHENY COUNTY – JUDGE RACESALLEGHENY COUNTY COUNCIL RACESALLEGHENY COUNTY – MUNICIPALITIES A THROUGH HALLEGHENY COUNTY – MUNICIPALITIES M THROUGH W
RESULTS: MAIN PAGE | PITTSBURGH MAYOR | ALLEGHENY COUNTY | ARMSTRONG COUNTY | BEAVER COUNTY | BUTLER COUNTY | FAYETTE COUNTY | GREENE COUNTY | LAWRENCE COUNTY | WASHINGTON COUNTY | WESTMORELAND COUNTY
With many races across Allegheny County on Election Day, Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 has you covered. Below you’ll find only contested results as they come into the newsroom, from county races to municipalities and the Pittsburgh mayoral race.
Below you will find the following categories:
- Pittsburgh’s Mayoral Race
- Pittsburgh Special Election Questions
- Allegheny County Judges
- Allegheny County Council
- Municipalities A – H
- Municipalities M – W
PITTSBURGH MAYORAL RACE
Pittsburgh voters will decide on a new mayor in November after Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey was defeated on the democratic ticket by Allegheny County Controller Corey O’Connor.
“Your voices, and your calls for accountable leadership and growth have been heard in this democratic primary,” O’Connor said during his victory speech at Nova Place in Pittsburgh Tuesday night.
O’Connor said that as the November election approaches, he will continue to work with the people of Pittsburgh to ensure it becomes a place in which families feel safe to settle.
On the Republican ballot, retired police officer Tony Moreno defeated Pittsburgh business owner Thomas West.
Moreno said he will now be one step closer to helping the Pittsburgh community come together as one and make the region safer for everyone.
“We’ve won twice, and this next one, we are going to speak the community’s voice for them,” Moreno said. “It’s time to bring back accountability and transparency in the city of Pittsburgh.”
He continued, saying, “We’re going to build our public safety back to the pride that it deserves.”
For more on O’Connor’s win, click here.
For more on Monreno’s win, click here.
If you don’t see results above, click here.
