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The 2023 Allegheny County Executive election was held on November 7, 2023, to elect the next chief executive of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
The incumbent county executive, Rich Fitzgerald, was ineligible to run for a fourth consecutive term due to term limits.[1] The 2023 election was thus the first open seat race for county executive since Fitzgerald was elected in 2011,[2] and the winner would become the fourth individual to hold the position of county executive since it was established under the home-rule charter in 2000, following Jim Roddey, Dan Onorato, and Fitzgerald.[3]
The primary election was held on May 16.[1] State representative Sara Innamorato won the Democratic primary, while businessman Joe Rockey was unopposed in the Republican primary.[4] Innamorato's nomination was seen as a major victory for the progressive movement in Allegheny County, continuing a trend that includes the election of Ed Gainey as mayor of Pittsburgh in 2021 and Summer Lee to the U.S. House in 2022.[5] However, it was also an unexpectedly close result, with Innamorato's margin of 2.6% vastly underperforming Fitzgerald's 2019 margin of 36.5%.[6]
- ^ a b Delano, Jon (November 28, 2022). "City controller Michael Lamb announces candidacy for Allegheny County executive". KDKA. Retrieved November 29, 2022.
- ^ Wolfson, Charlie (November 16, 2022). "These issues, questions, and people may define Allegheny County's next big election". Public Source. Retrieved November 29, 2022.
- ^ "Michael Lamb running for Allegheny County Executive". WTAE. November 28, 2022. Retrieved November 29, 2022.
- ^ Moss, Jon (May 16, 2023). "Sara Innamorato wins Democratic county executive primary with city-suburb coalition". Pittsburgh Union Progress. Retrieved May 16, 2023.
- ^ Potter, Chris (May 16, 2023). "In win for progressives, Innamorato takes Democratic primary in Allegheny County executive race". WESA. Retrieved May 17, 2023.
- ^ "Results". November 5, 2019 General Election. Allegheny County, PA. Retrieved November 23, 2023.