Republican Fitzpatrick wins new U.S. House term
Republican Brian Fitzpatrick will serve another term as the U.S. House of Representatives member for a district covering Bucks County and a portion of Montgomery County.
This year’s court-ordered redistricting changed the district’s number from the 8th District to the 1st District, but it covers a lot of the same area.
Unofficial counts on county websites in the early morning hours of the day after Election Day showed Fitzpatrick received 151,962 votes in Bucks County and 16,550 in Montgomery County for a total of 168,512, compared to Democrat Scott Wallace’s 140,563 in Bucks County and 19,130 in Montgomery County, totaling 159,693.
Fitzpatrick, a former FBI agent, is finishing his first term in the U.S. House.
“Despite the Washington gridlock and extreme partisanship, I have worked across the aisle to deliver results,” he said in answer to a questionnaire during the campaign.
“Compromise and working with others should not be considered a sign of weakness,” he said. “We need to work together on a bipartisan basis to achieve meaningful results.”
Wallace said he was running because Washington has abandoned everyday working people and because he was “deeply troubled by values emanating from the White House.”