This particular contest was a special election because of Murtha’s death. It was decided yesterday: the Democrat, Critz, beat the Repub, Burns.
The election was both a primary election to see who would run in November and a special election to see who would complete the balance of John Murtha's term.
I have since found out that Burns won the Republican primary portion of the election and Critz won the Democrat portion. They will face each other again in the Fall.
Burns was appointed by the Chair of the PA Republican Party to run for the unfinished Murtha term with no voter input. When he did this, he completely overlooked Hoffman - who had scored the highest vote totals ever against Murtha during the last run. It seems like another case of the RINO leadership trying to pad their numbers.