State Representative Madeleine Dean, born and raised in Glenside, wins the newly drawn 4th Congressional District for the Democratic Primary.

Dean, 58, defeated Democrats, Shira Goodman and former 3 term congressman, Joe Hoeffel, by over 25,000 votes.

Dean, is on a mission to break up the 20 member “men’s club” that makes up the PA congressional delegation. She will move on to face Republican, Dan David, Vice President and Co-founder of GeoInvesting, in November, 2018.

Leading up to yesterday’s election, Madeleine Dean,@mad4pa tweeted,

“Washington won’t change until we change the people we send there to represent us. That’s why I’m running 4 #Congress. It’s time we have a #progressive woman fighting 4 PA in our nation’s capital. Join me in this fight on the May 15th primary #election# #bluewave2018 #FlipTheHouse”