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Polls Open Tuesday for Philadelphia Special Election

North Philadelphia voters can take to the polls this week for a special election to fill the seat of a state representative who resigned after a corruption investigation earlier this year.

Democrat Donna Bullock, an attorney and special assistant to City Council President Darrell Clarke, is up against Republican Adam Lang, a computer engineer, and write-in candidate Judith Robinson, a lifelong North Philadelphia resident and real-estate broker for the 195th Legislative District seat.

Whoever wins the special election, which will take place Tuesday, will finish out former state Rep. Michelle Brownlee’s term and will be up for re-election in the spring. Brownlee resigned after pleading guilty to a cash-for-favors scheme in which she and five other elected officials were charged. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

The 195th Legislative District covers swaths of North Philadelphia including Strawberry Mansion and Spring Garden.

Special elections will also take place in Northeast Philadelphia's 174th District and West and Southwest Philadelphia's 191st District, which also includes parts of Darby Township on Tuesday.

In the 174th, Democrat Ed Neilson takes on Republican Timothy Dailey for John Sabatina Jr.'s seat after Sabatina resigned to take a state senate seat, and in the 191st, Democrat Joanna McClinton takes on Republican Charles A. Wilkins Jr. and Tracey Gordon for the seat vacated by Ronald Waters when he pleaded guilty to conflict-of-interest charges.
 

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