Primary Election Results: Madeleine Dean Wins PA 4th District

State Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-153) will be the Democratic nominee for U.S. Congress in Pennsylvania's 4th District, as she holds a significant lead with nearly half of precincts reporting in the primary elections Tuesday night. Dean becomes the heavy favorite to win the seat in the fall in the heavily blue 4th, which covers most of Montgomery County.

As of 10:06 p.m., Dean has 13,486 votes (76 percent), enough for a massive lead over Shira Goodman, the Executive Director of the gun control group CeaseFirePA (11 percent) and former U.S. Congressman Joe Hoeffel (11 percent).

The New York Times declared Dean the winner shortly after 10 p.m. Dean's campaign has not yet made an announcement, though she did share a statement shortly after polls closed.

"Humbled and grateful fo rmy support on the ground today," she said. "Thank you from the bottom of my heart."

Dean will face Republican Dan David, a businessman, in the general election in the fall. Should she win, she'll become the only female representative in Pennsylvania's delegation to U.S. Congress.

This new district replaces most of the previous 13th district, previously represented by Brendan Boyle, who ran for, and won, the 2nd District nomination.

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Dean, 58, a former professor of English at La Salle University and Philadelphia lawyer, served as Abington Township's Ward 7 Commissioner before being elected to the legislature. She has represented the 153rd district since 2012. One of Dean's most recent actions in the legislature was to introduce a bill banning bump stocks.

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Humbled and grateful for my support on the ground today! Thank you from the bottom of my heart. pic.twitter.com/XbkflzZGvB
— Madeleine Dean (@mad4pa) May 15, 2018

Image via PA House