Bangladeshi-American Nina Ahmad wins Democratic main for Pennsylvania AG
Bangladeshi-American and ex - Philadelphia Deputy Mayor Nina Ahmad declared victory Thursday more than her closest competitor, Pittsburgh Controller Michael Lamb, on a six-way Democratic key race for Pennsylvania auditor basic.
As of Thursday afternoon, Ahmad led Lamb of Mt. Washington by a lot more than 80,000 votes with all except one voting district in Pennsylvania reporting, according to unofficial Pennsylvania Section of Express election returns. She accumulated about 34% of the vote in comparison to Lamb's 28%.
All other prospects had significantly less than 15%.
After election end result, Nina thanks everyone in a tweeter message.
She wrote: Many thanks to all PA voters who've helped me over the finish line. I am deeply grateful and humbled to possess won the Democratic key! "I promised switch and voters responded resoundingly by electing a fresh face and a fresh voice," Ahmad stated in a statement. "I am deeply humbled."
Lamb, 57, a lawyer, provides been the Pittsburgh controller since 2008 and previously served as Allegheny County prothonotary. He carried Allegheny County with a sizable vote margin over Ahmad, winning 77% of the vote to her 13%, relating to unofficial county election returns.
Ahmad, a native of Bangladesh, includes a doctorate found in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania and previously worked as being a medical scientist in Wills Eye Hospital and Thomas Jefferson Medical University, according to her biography. She as well dished up as Philadelphia deputy mayor, president of the Philadelphia National Company for Ladies and as an associate of President Obama’s National Advisory Commission on Asian Us citizens and Pacific Islanders.
She vowed to marketing campaign with former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential applicant, along with Pennsylvania Lawyer Basic Josh Shapiro and point out Treasurer Joe Torsella, to “deliver the modification Pennsylvanians want."
Which includes rebuilding the state's market and enacting police and criminal justice reform, according to her declaration. She also promised as auditor to conduct all audits "through the zoom lens of racial equity."
"I will function to stamp out sexual harassment and discrimination in state, and change the way of life in Harrisburg," she said.
Republican Timothy L. DeFoor, a past Dauphin County controller, ran unopposed in the GOP most important for auditor general.
