Suzan Leonard
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Suzan Leonard is an at-large member of the North Penn Board of Directors in Pennsylvania. The seat was up for general election on November 3, 2015. There was a primary election on May 19, 2015. She filed to run in both the Republican and Democratic primary. Leonard won the Democratic nomination and advanced to the general election.[1][2] Suzan Leonard won the general election on November 3, 2015.
Leonard is a judge for the Montgomery County Magisterial District in Pennsylvania. Leonard won the seat in the general election on November 7, 2017.
Biography
Leonard is an attorney. In addition to serving on the North Penn school board, she also serves on the North Montco Technical Career Center Joint Operating Committee.[3]
Elections
2017
Pennsylvania held local judicial elections on November 7, 2017. A primary election occurred on May 16, 2017. The filing deadline for candidates who wished to run in this election was March 7, 2017. Candidates and recently appointed judges of the Courts of Common Pleas must initially run in partisan elections. Subsequent terms are won through retention elections. Elections for the Magisterial District Courts are always partisan. Pennsylvania allows cross-filing for candidates running in partisan elections. Most candidates run in both the Democratic and Republican primaries.[4]
Suzan Leonard (D) defeated incumbent Robert Sobeck (R) in the general election for the Montgomery County Magisterial District 38-1-21.
| Montgomery County Magisterial District 38-1-21, General Election, 2017 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic |  Suzan Leonard |
51.75% | 6,744 | |
| Republican | Robert Sobeck Incumbent | 48.25% | 6,288 | |
| Write-in votes | 0.01% | 1 | ||
| Total Votes | 13,033 | |||
| Source: Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, "2017 General Election Official Results," accessed December 20, 2017 | ||||
Suzan Leonard defeated incumbent Robert Sobeck in the Democratic primary for the Montgomery County Magisterial District 38-1-21.[5]
| Montgomery County Magisterial District 38-1-21, Democratic Primary, 2017 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
| Suzan Leonard |
75.86% | 2,530 |
| Robert Sobeck Incumbent | 24.14% | 805 |
| Total Votes | 3,335 | |
| Source: Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, "2017 Primary Election," accessed May 16, 2017 | ||
Selection method
- See also: Partisan election of judges
Judges of the Pennsylvania Magisterial Districts are selected in partisan elections. They serve six-year terms. After their initial term, magistrates must run for new terms in contested races.[6][7]
Qualifications
A judge must be:
- a local resident for at least one year;[7]
- a state bar member;*
- no younger than 21; and
- no older than 75.
*Magisterial district judges may alternatively pass a training course to sidestep the bar member requirement.[7]
2015
Five of the nine seats on the North Penn school board were up for general election on November 3, 2015. There was a primary election on May 19, 2015.
Incumbents Carolyn Murphy, John Schilling, and Suzan Leonard won re-election. Edward Diasio and Theresa Prykowski also joined the board. They defeated incumbent Cory Brown and challengers Beverly Dodds, Benjamin Litman, Patrick McGee Jr., and Tina Stoll.
All candidates filed to run in both the Republican primary and the Democratic primary.[1][8]
Leonard, Murphy, Dodds, Litman, and Stoll won the Democratic primary. Brown, Schilling, Diasio, McGee, and Prykowski were victorious in the Republican primary. No independent candidates filed to run in the general election.[2]
Results
| North Penn School District, At-Large, General Election, 2015 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican | Edward Diasio |
10.6% | 9,372 | |
| Democratic | Carolyn Murphy Incumbent |
10.4% | 9,235 | |
| Republican | John Schilling Incumbent |
10.2% | 8,994 | |
| Republican | Theresa Prykowski |
10.2% | 8,986 | |
| Democratic | Suzan Leonard Incumbent |
10.1% | 8,974 | |
| Republican | Patrick McGee Jr. | 10.1% | 8,939 | |
| Democratic | Tina Stoll | 9.9% | 8,769 | |
| Democratic | Beverly Dodds | 9.9% | 8,718 | |
| Republican | Cory Brown Incumbent | 9.6% | 8,511 | |
| Democratic | Benjamin Litman | 8.9% | 7,898 | |
| Write-in votes | 0.02% | 20 | ||
| Total Votes | 88,416 | |||
| Source: Bucks County, Pennsylvania, "Bucks County Election Results," accessed January 4, 2016 Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, "Montgomery County Election Results," accessed January 4, 2016 | ||||
| North Penn School District, At-Large Democratic Primary Election, 4-year term, 2015 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic | Carolyn Murphy Incumbent |
17.2% | 2,305 | |
| Democratic | Suzan Leonard Incumbent |
16.6% | 2,227 | |
| Democratic | Benjamin Litman |
15.2% | 2,044 | |
| Democratic | Beverly Dodds |
15.2% | 2,041 | |
| Democratic | Tina Stoll |
14.7% | 1,966 | |
| Democratic | Theresa Prykowski | 5.2% | 703 | |
| Democratic | Edward Diasio | 4.7% | 636 | |
| Democratic | Patrick McGee Jr. | 3.9% | 529 | |
| Democratic | John Schilling Incumbent | 3.9% | 519 | |
| Democratic | Cory Brown Incumbent | 3.1% | 414 | |
| Democratic | Write-In | 0.2% | 26 | |
| Total Votes | 13,410 | |||
| Source: Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, "Primary 2015 Official Results," accessed July 8, 2015 and Bucks County, Pennsylvania, "Official Election Results," accessed July 8, 2015 | ||||
| North Penn School District, At-Large Republican Primary Election, 4-year term, 2015 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican | Patrick McGee Jr. |
14.9% | 2,381 | |
| Republican | John Schilling Incumbent |
14.7% | 2,346 | |
| Republican | Edward Diasio |
14.2% | 2,266 | |
| Republican | Theresa Prykowski |
14% | 2,239 | |
| Republican | Cory Brown Incumbent |
12.3% | 1,958 | |
| Republican | Carolyn Murphy Incumbent | 7.6% | 1,221 | |
| Republican | Suzan Leonard Incumbent | 6.5% | 1,040 | |
| Republican | Beverly Dodds | 6.2% | 993 | |
| Republican | Tina Stoll | 5.4% | 870 | |
| Republican | Benjamin Litman | 4% | 642 | |
| Republican | Write-in | 0.1% | 15 | |
| Total Votes | 15,971 | |||
| Source: Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, "Primary 2015 Official Results," accessed July 8, 2015 and Bucks County, Pennsylvania, "Official Election Results," accessed July 8, 2015 | ||||
Funding
Leonard reported no contributions or expenditures to the Montgomery County Voter Services Department in the election.[9]
Endorsements
Leonard received an official endorsement from the North Penn Democratic Committee.[10]
2014
Results
Elections for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives took place in 2014. A primary election took place on May 20, 2014. The general election was held on November 4, 2014. The signature filing deadline for candidates wishing to run in this election was March 11, 2014. Incumbent Catherine Harper was unopposed in the Republican primary, while Suzan Leonard was unopposed in the Democratic primary. Harper defeated Leonard in the general election.[11][12][13]
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Catherine Harper Incumbent |
60.7% | 13,744 | |
| Democratic | Suzan Leonard | 39.3% | 8,882 | |
| Total Votes | 22,626 | |||
Campaign themes
2014
Leonard's campaign website highlighted the following issues:[14]
Reforming our Education System
- Excerpt: "I will work to make higher education more affordable. The cost of college tuition has skyrocketed, and far too many students graduate too deep in student loan debt which has a major impact on their future earnings and lifestyle choices."
Creating Jobs and Supporting the Middle Class
- Excerpt: "I will strongly support an increase to the minimum wage. I will stand with unions that help protect workers with prevailing wage laws and adequate workplace safety standards, and I will support laws designed to insure equal pay for women."
Protecting our Environment
- Excerpt: "I support levying an extraction tax on natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale. Pennsylvania is the only state that does not have an extraction tax; even states like Oklahoma and Texas have this tax. I will propose that part of those tax revenues be used to fund improvements in our education system."
Safeguarding Health & Reproductive Rights
- Excerpt: "If elected, I will advocate for the expansion of Medicaid in Pennsylvania, using the money that became available to the state through the federal government with the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act."
- Excerpt: "I am proudly pro-choice and believe that a woman's ability to decide when to have a child, and how many children to have, should never be infringed upon."
Restoring our Infrastructure
- Excerpt: "I strongly support re-investing in our state’s crumbling infrastructure."
About the district
- See also: North Penn School District, Pennsylvania
The North Penn School District is located in southeastern Pennsylvania in Montgomery County. The county seat is Norristown. According to the United States Census Bureau, Montgomery County had a population of 812,376 in 2013.[15] In the 2012-2013 school year, the North Penn School District was the seventh-largest school district in Pennsylvania and served 12,650 students.[16]
Demographics
The county outperformed the rest of Pennsylvania in terms of higher education achievement in 2013. According to the United States Census Bureau, the percentage of residents over the age of 25 with a bachelor's degree or higher in Montgomery County was 45.5 percent, and the state's overall percentage was 27.5 percent. The median household income in the county was $79,183 compared to Pennsylvania's statewide median of $52,548. The poverty rate in the county was 6.1 percent, and the state's poverty rate was 13.3 percent.[15]
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Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here.
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See also
- Pennsylvania House of Representatives
- Pennsylvania State Legislature
- Pennsylvania House of Representatives elections, 2014
- Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 61
- North Penn School District, Pennsylvania
- North Penn School District elections (2015)
- Embroiled incumbents see differing outcomes in May 19 school board elections across five states (May 21, 2015)
- Incumbency no guarantee of success in Nov. 3 school board elections (November 6, 2015)
- What happened in Nov.'s top board elections? (November 4, 2015)
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 North Penn School District, "Elected School Directors," accessed March 13, 2015
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Tiffany Rouse, "Email communication with Montgomery County Election Coordinator Katie Walsh," March 19, 2015 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "candidates" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ The Reporter Online, "Six newcomers, four incumbents running for North Penn School Board in primary," May 12, 2015
- ↑ Pennsylvania Department of State, "2017 Election Calendar," accessed February 23, 2017
- ↑ Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, "2017 Primary Candidate List," accessed April 11, 2017
- ↑ Pennsylvania Courts, "How Judges Are Elected," accessed July 22, 2015
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 American Judicature Society, "Methods of Judicial Selection: Pennsylvania; Limited Jurisdiction Courts," archived October 3, 2014
- ↑ Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, "Voter Services," September 22, 2015
- ↑ Montgomery County Voter Services, "Campaign Finance Expense Report Filings," accessed February 3, 2016
- ↑ North Penn Democratic Committee, "Our 2015 Candidates," accessed May 17, 2015
- ↑ Pennsylvania Department of State, "Official primary results for May 20, 2014," accessed July 9, 2014
- ↑ Pennsylvania Department of State, "2014 Official Candidate Listing," accessed March 21, 2014
- ↑ Pennsylvania Department of State, "2014 General Election," accessed December 5, 2014
- ↑ Suzan G. Leonard, "On the Issues," accessed September 4, 2014
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 "United States Census Bureau," "Montgomery County," accessed March 19, 2015"
- ↑ National Center for Education Statistics, "North Penn School District," accessed March 13, 2015
- ↑ The New York Times, "Election Results," accessed September 19, 2013
| 2015 North Penn School District Elections | |
| Montgomery County, Pennsylvania | |
| Election date: | Primary election: May 19, 2015 General election: November 3, 2015 |
| Candidates: | At-large: • Incumbent, Cory Brown (D/R) • Incumbent, Suzan Leonard (D/R) • Incumbent, Carolyn Murphy (D/R) • Incumbent, John Schilling (D/R) • Edward Diasio (D/R) • Beverly Dodds (D/R) • Benjamin Litman (D/R) • Patrick McGee Jr. (D/R) • Theresa Prykowski (D/R) • Tina Stoll (D/R) |
| Important information: | Key deadlines • Additional elections on the ballot |
