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Primary Election Day: A Look at How Local Candidates Are and Are Not Using Twitter

Today, Tuesday, May 16, 2017 is Primary Election Day in the state of Pennsylvania. I am particularly interested to see how the turnout for this local election compares to previous primary elections that occur after a presidential election. Since November, there has been an incredible volume of posts on social media about getting involved in local issues. The turnout today will be an interesting metric of if posting about local politics translates into voting locally.

I have been following the election on Twitter all day and out of curiosity, I wanted to see what the candidates are tweeting about today. As I was building a Twitter list of candidates, I was a little surprised to find that many of the candidates on the ballot in the City of Pittsburgh are not on Twitter. I’ve put together a list of candidate that are on the ballot in Pittsburgh with their Twitter handles and # of followers today. Given that the current President of the United States uses Twitter on a daily basis, and that Twitter is used by many politicians in Washington to communicate with constituents, I expected that more of the local candidates would have Twitter accounts.

I have excluded the judicial candidates and magistrate races from this list. Of the 20 candidates listed only 11 have Twitter accounts, (handles are listed below) and not all of them are very active.

The only candidates that have posted at least one tweet today are @tkailsmith , @FifeMyers , @DanielGilman , @BillPeduto & @AshleighDeemer.

You can follow our Twitter list of Pittsburgh primary candidates here. Live stream of candidate tweets is included below.

Office Candidate Twitter # of Followers
1 Mayor of City of Pittsburgh Bill Peduto @BillPeduto 57,123
2 Darlene Harris @Darlene4Pgh 1291
3 John Welch @welch4mayor 124
4 Allegheny County Sheriff Bill Mullen
5 George Satler
6 Pittsburgh City Council District 2 Theresa Kail-Smith @TKailSmith 1583
7 Pittsburgh City Council District 4 Anthony Coghill @CoghillAnthony 28
8 Ashleigh Deemer @AshleighDeemer 1245
9 Pittsburgh City Council District 6 Daniel Lavelle @RDLavelle 3260
10 Pittsburgh City Council District 8 Daniel Gilman @RDLavelle 6001
11 Allegheny County Council Jim Ellenbogen
12 Robert J. Palmosina
12 Pittsburgh School Board District 1 Sylvia C. Wilson @SylviaCWilson 30
14 Pittsburgh School Board District 3 James Myers @FifeMyers 436
15 Sala Udin @SalaUdine 200
16 Pittsburgh School Board District 5 Terry Kennedy
17 Ghadah Makoshi @G_Makoshi_PGH 10
18 Pittsburgh School Board District 7 Cynthia A. Falls
19 Pittsburgh School Board District 9 Veronica Edwards
20 Carolyn Klug

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Election Day 2014: Resources for Pittsburgh Voters

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Today, Tuesday, November 4, 2014 is Election Day.  The big race on the ballot is for the Governor of PA.  The polls are open until 8pm.

Share your voting stories with the #votePGH hashtag.

Links to polling place locators, voter guide and more are included below.

 

https://storify.com/iheartpgh/election-day-2014-pittsburgh-voter-resources

 

 

Election Day Information – Where to Vote, Voter Guides & Election Day Discounts

Today – Tuesday, May 21, 2013 is election day in the city of Pittsburgh.

Election Day Information

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Polls are open from 7am to 8pm.

Use the Allegheny County Polling Place Locator to find your polling place.

More details and Election Day Resources are available here 

Voter Guides

Looking for information on the candidates?  Check out the following voter guides:

 

Voter Specials – Election Day Discounts

Click here to check out the list of local businesses that are offering discounts (and free beer) if you bring in your voting stub.

Do you know anyone in these Neighborhoods?

A map of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with its nei...

A map of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with its neighborhoods labeled. For use primarily in the list of Pittsburgh neighborhoods. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

We are making great progress in getting folks to pledge to vote over at votePGH.org.  I have two goals for votePGH to achieve before election day:

  1. 1000 – Get 1000 Pittsburghers to pledge to vote – we have just passed the 250 mark and we need your help to get more folks pledging!
  2. Every Neighborhood – At least 1 pledge from each of Pittsburgh’s 90 Neighborhoods.  You don’t have to live in Pittsburgh to take the pledge!  All voters in PA are invited to sign the pledge.

This is a list of neighborhoods that we don’t have any pledges from yet – do you know anyone that lives in one of these neighborhoods?  Can you tell them about votePGH?

 

  1. Arlington
  2. Arlington Heights
  3. Banksville
  4. Bedford Dwellings
  5. Beltzhoover
  6. Bon Air
  7. California-Kirkbride
  8. Central Oakland
  9. Chartiers
  10. Chateau
  11. Crafton Heights
  12. Crawford-Roberts
  13. Duquesne Heights
  14. East Carnegie
  15. East Hills
  16. Esplen
  17. Fairywood
  18. Fineview
  19. Glen Hazel
  20. Hays
  21. Homewood North
  22. Homewood South
  23. Homewood West
  24. Lincoln–Lemington–Belmar
  25. Lincoln Place
  26. Marshall-Shadeland (also known as Brightwood)
  27. Middle Hill
  28. Mount Oliver (not to be confused with the neighboring borough ofMount Oliver)
  29. New Homestead
  30. North Oakland
  31. North Point Breeze
  32. North Shore
  33. Northview Heights
  34. Oakwood
  35. Panther Hollow (officially part of South Oakland)
  36. Perry South (also known as Perry Hilltop)
  37. Ridgemont
  38. Saint Clair
  39. Southshore
  40. Spring Garden
  41. Strip District
  42. Terrace Village
  43. Troy Hill
  44. Upper Hill
  45. Upper Lawrenceville
  46. Washington’s Landing (A sub-neighborhood of Troy Hill)
  47. West Oakland
  48. Westwood
  49. Windgap