Tom Jones reclaims 36th Senate District for Republicans

This story was originally published by LNP. Republicans took back Lancaster County’s 36th Senate District Tuesday, a year-and-a-half after a shock special election win by Democrat James Malone. GOP candidate Tom Jones handily defeated Malone, though his win was not able to block Democratic efforts to flip control of the state Senate for the first time in three decades. By early Wednesday morning, the Democratic Party declared it had won a trifecta in Harrisburg. Jones had secured 54.5% of the...