Democrat James Andrew Malone narrowly won a special election for a Pennsylvania state Senate seat in a stretch of Republican-leaning suburbs and farming communities, scoring an upset in a territory that a Democrat hasn’t represented in the chamber for 136 years.

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Democrat James Malone is projected to win a special election for Pennsylvania’s 36th State Senate district on Tuesday night, narrowly triumphing in a district President Donald Trump had won by 15 points in November.