Quigley defeats Ciresi for 146th House Dist.
After a campaign filled with plenty of mud-slinging, the race for Pennsylvania’s 146th House District came down to the wire.
According to unofficial results posted by the Montgomery County election results website Tuesday night, incumbent Republican Tom Quigley held off Democratic challenger Joe Ciresi to win the seat in Harrisburg.
Final but unofficial results show Quigley received 14,868 votes, or 51 percent of the vote, while Ciresi received 14,198 votes or 49 percent of the vote.
The 146th District includes the boroughs of Trappe, Royersford and part of Pottstown, as well as Limerick, Lower Pottsgrove and Perkiomen townships.
Quigley, 53, a former Royersford mayor, held the district seat from 2005 to 2012, when he lost a re-election bid, but then regained the seat in 2014. Ciresi, 46, has served for 11 years on the Spring-Ford Area School Board, where he is currently board vice pres- ident. He works as director of advertising sales at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia.
The campaigns clashed over several controversial moves including a flier Quigley mailed to residents recently that uses a photo of Ciresi dressed as Captain Hook from a Steel River Theater production of “Peter Pan.” Ciresi later criticized Quigley for refusing a public debate on the Pottstown Community Television network.
Both men touted their experience in their respective areas of public service and wanted to do more to help education funding.