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Jonathan Kassa
Jonathan Kassa (Democratic Party) is an at-large member of the North Penn School District school board in Pennsylvania. He assumed office on December 14, 2017. His current term ends in 2025.
Kassa (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to represent District 151. He lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Elections
2020
See also: Pennsylvania House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 151
Incumbent Todd Stephens defeated Jonathan Kassa in the general election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 151 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Todd Stephens (R) | 53.1 | 21,074 |
 | Jonathan Kassa (D) | 46.9 | 18,604 | |
| Total votes: 39,678 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 151
Jonathan Kassa advanced from the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 151 on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jonathan Kassa | 100.0 | 8,869 |
| Total votes: 8,869 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 151
Incumbent Todd Stephens advanced from the Republican primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 151 on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Todd Stephens | 100.0 | 5,881 |
| Total votes: 5,881 | |||
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Campaign finance
2017
Five seats on the North Penn School District school board were up for general election on November 7, 2017. Four seats were up for regular election and one seat was up for special election for a two-year term, due to the death of former board member Carolyn Murphy. A partisan primary election for all five seats was held on May 16, 2017.
A total of eight candidates ran in the general election for the regular terms after all of them advanced from the primary. Four newcomer Democrats won the spots on the board: Christian Fusco, Jonathan Kassa, Tina Stoll, and Mark Warren. Board incumbents Josephine Charnock, Patrick McGee Jr., and Frank O'Donnell cross-filed to run for re-election for both the Democratic and Republican parties in the primary election. They were joined on the ballot by newcomers Fusco, Kassa, Thomas Mancini, Stoll, and Warren, who all cross-filed to run in the primary election. Stoll, Fusco, Warren, and Kassa took the Democratic nominations for the four-year terms, and O'Donnell, Mancini, McGee, and Charnock took the Republican nominations.
In the special election for the two-year term, Jenna Ott defeated Michelle Rupp in the general. Ott won the Democratic nomination and Rupp won the Republican nomination in the primary.[1]
These candidates could have faced independent candidates in the general election. However, no independent candidate filed by the August 1, 2017, deadline to get on the ballot.[2]
McGee Jr., Mancini, O'Donnell, Charnock, and Rupp ran as part of a candidate slate.[3]
General results
| North Penn School District, At-Large General Election, 4-year terms, 2017 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic |  Tina Stoll |
14.20% | 10,061 | |
| Democratic | Christian Fusco |
14.16% | 10,034 | |
| Democratic | Mark Warren |
13.70% | 9,703 | |
| Democratic | Jonathan Kassa |
13.58% | 9,622 | |
| Republican | Patrick McGee Jr. Incumbent | 11.21% | 7,944 | |
| Republican | Thomas Mancini | 11.16% | 7,907 | |
| Republican | Josephine Charnock Incumbent | 11.04% | 7,818 | |
| Republican | Frank O'Donnell Incumbent | 10.94% | 7,750 | |
| Total Votes | 70,839 | |||
| Source: Bucks County, "Municipal Election Tuesday, November 7, 2017," accessed November 8, 2017 and Montgomery County, "Unofficial Results," accessed November 8, 2017 These election results are unofficial and will be updated after official vote totals are made available. | ||||
Democratic primary results
| North Penn School District, At-Large Democratic Primary Election, 4-year terms, 2017 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic | Tina Stoll |
21.67% | 3,896 | |
| Democratic | Christian Fusco |
21.47% | 3,860 | |
| Democratic | Mark Warren |
20.86% | 3,750 | |
| Democratic | Jonathan Kassa |
19.53% | 3,511 | |
| Democratic | Thomas Mancini | 4.44% | 798 | |
| Democratic | Josephine Charnock Incumbent | 4.38% | 788 | |
| Democratic | Patrick McGee Jr. Incumbent | 3.97% | 714 | |
| Democratic | Frank O'Donnell Incumbent | 3.66% | 658 | |
| Write-in votes | 0.02% | 4 | ||
| Total Votes | 17,979 | |||
| Source: Bucks County, "Bucks County Election Results," accessed June 20, 2017 and Montgomery County, "2017 Primary Election Official Results," accessed June 20, 2017 | ||||
Republican primary results
| North Penn School District, At-Large Republican Primary Election, 4-year terms, 2017 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican | Patrick McGee Jr. Incumbent |
18.29% | 2,784 | |
| Republican | Frank O'Donnell Incumbent |
17.89% | 2,723 | |
| Republican | Thomas Mancini |
17.83% | 2,714 | |
| Republican | Josephine Charnock Incumbent |
14.80% | 2,253 | |
| Republican | Tina Stoll | 10.36% | 1,577 | |
| Republican | Christian Fusco | 8.61% | 1,310 | |
| Republican | Mark Warren | 6.99% | 1,063 | |
| Republican | Jonathan Kassa | 5.19% | 790 | |
| Write-in votes | 0.03% | 4 | ||
| Total Votes | 15,218 | |||
| Source: Bucks County, "Bucks County Election Results," accessed June 20, 2017 and Montgomery County, "2017 Primary Election Official Results," accessed June 20, 2017 | ||||
Funding
| 2017 Campaign Finance Deadlines in Pennsylvania[4] | |
|---|---|
| Date | Deadline |
| May 5, 2017 | 2nd Friday Pre-Primary report due |
| June 15, 2017 | 30-Day Post-Primary report due |
| October 27, 2017 | 2nd Friday Pre-Election report due |
| December 7, 2017 | 30-Day Post-Election report due |
School board candidates in Pennsylvania were required to report their campaign finance activity. Those who spent or received more than $250 in a reporting period had to file full reports. Those below the threshold had to file forms to declare they were exempt from reporting. Candidates could have, but were not required to, form committees to handle campaign finance transactions. They were not required to have separate bank accounts for campaign purposes.[5]
The table to the left details the four campaign finance deadlines in 2017.[4]
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Jonathan Kassa did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Montgomery County, "Official Candidate List," accessed May 11, 2017
- ↑ Bucks County, "Candidate List Municipal Election, November 7, 2017," accessed October 25, 2017
- ↑ Quality Education Matters, "Home," accessed May 15, 2017
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Pennsylvania Department of State, "2017 Election Calendar," accessed April 19, 2017
- ↑ Pennsylvania Department of State, "Campaign Finance Reporting Law," accessed January 15, 2014
