Like many of the judges in these races, two of the three candidates for the single open seat on the Bucks County Court of Common Pleas are cross-filed. You can also find a full list of all the statewide common pleas openings here and our guide to statewide judicial races here.Īnd if you vote in Philadelphia, Billy Penn’s procrastinator’s guide includes city judicial elections. WHYY thanks our sponsors - become a WHYY sponsorīelow is an overview of the judicial candidates in Bucks, Montgomery, Delaware, and Chester counties. They also handle appeals from magisterial courts and Philadelphia and Pittsburgh’s municipal courts, which hear cases on issues like landlord-tenant disputes and traffic violations. These courts deal with family issues, too, like divorce or child custody, distributing an estate, or charges of abuse. Most of the criminal and civil cases in Pennsylvania are heard in Common Pleas court. Those judges are selected for 10-year terms in statewide, partisan elections, and then are put to a yes-or-no retention vote for subsequent terms. There are sixty of them statewide - generally one per county, though several rural counties are doubled up - and they seat between one and 93 judges. These are the Common Pleas courts, the lowest-level courts for which the commonwealth holds elections.
During the May 18 primary election, one of the many decisions voters in the Philadelphia suburbs will make is about who will sit on the courts that often serve as the very first step for any significant legal issue.
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