Wednesday November 3, 2021 at 10:04 AM

(Beaver County, Pa.) The General Election was held in Beaver County yesterday with a modest amount of the 112,744 registered voters voting. Overall 37,803 people cast a vote whether in person or by mail-in ballot for a 33.53 percent turnout. The majority of voters returned to the polls with 29,695 people going to their local polling place to cast a ballot and 8,103 people voting by mail.

Compared to 2017, the last year after a presidential election, Beaver County had an almost 5 percent increase in ballots cast. In 2017 the turnout was 28.88 percent. There are also almost 4000 more registered voters in Beaver County in 2021 with 112,744 being registered compared to 2017 the county had 108,931.

There were many races that were contested and some incumbents were beat. In the City of Beaver Falls Mayor George Quay fell short of his write-in campaign to defeat Kenya Johns who defeated Quay in the primary earlier this year. Johns received more votes, 778, than write-in votes that were cast, 580, thus guaranteeing that Johns will become the first black and women mayor of Beaver Falls.

Ambridge will have a new Mayor as Democrat Gerald “Duke” Mc Coy defeat Republican Dennis Lapic by under 100 votes and Green Party candidate Lorianne Burgess  by nearly 300 votes.

Incumbent Ambridge School Board member Denise Maganello was defeated for both a 2 year and 4 year term.

Incumbent Blackhawk School Board member Melissa Ziegler was also ousted and Rochester school board while closely contested remained for the most part the same.

You can see all of the election results by clicking the link below to go the Beaver County Bureau of Elections unofficial results page:

http://www.beavercountypa.gov/Depts/Elections/Documents/Nov2021Results/SummaryResults11022021.pdf