Mike O'Brien (Pennsylvania)
Mike O'Brien (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Pennsylvania's 10th Congressional District. He lost in the Democratic primary on April 23, 2024.
O'Brien completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Mike O'Brien was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Cheltenham High School. He earned a bachelor's degree from the U.S. Naval Academy in 2003 and a graduate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005. His career experience includes working as a military officer. He began serving in the U.S. Marine Corps in 2003.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Pennsylvania's 10th Congressional District election, 2024
Pennsylvania's 10th Congressional District election, 2024 (April 23 Democratic primary)
Pennsylvania's 10th Congressional District election, 2024 (April 23 Republican primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 10
Incumbent Scott Perry defeated Janelle Stelson in the general election for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 10 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Scott Perry (R) | 50.5 | 205,567 |
 | Janelle Stelson (D) | 49.3 | 200,434 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 937 | ||
| Total votes: 406,938 | |||
 = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 10
The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 10 on April 23, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Janelle Stelson | 43.7 | 26,591 |
 | Mike O'Brien | 23.2 | 14,103 | |
 | Shamaine Daniels | 14.4 | 8,773 | |
 | Rick Coplen | 9.0 | 5,464 | |
 | Blake Lynch | 5.6 | 3,388 | |
 | John Broadhurst | 3.8 | 2,322 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.3 | 208 | ||
| Total votes: 60,849 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Bob Forbes (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 10
Incumbent Scott Perry advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 10 on April 23, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Scott Perry | 95.3 | 61,596 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 4.7 | 3,043 | ||
| Total votes: 64,639 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Endorsements
O'Brien received the following endorsements.
- New Politics
- Serve America PAC
- Vote Vets
- George Scott (D) - Frmr. cand. (2018)
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Mike O'Brien completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by O'Brien's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
| Collapse all
Early in his military career, Mike completed two combat deployments flying F/A-18 Hornets off of aircraft carriers as a TOPGUN graduate. In 2014, he then became one of the first ever operational pilots to fly the cutting-edge F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter. He retired after commanding an F-35 squadron in August 2023 and returned home to Pennsylvania to immediately run for Congress and defend democracy in PA-10.
Mike grew up entirely in the Pennsylvania public school system, graduated with distinction from the United States Naval Academy, and then went on to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he completed a Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
Through it all, Mike's proudest accomplishment is his marriage to Courtney - an Active Duty Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel, the Commanding Officer of a KC-130J squadron, and the all-time leading scorer for the U.S. Naval Academy women’s basketball team. They are the first and only married couple to command flying squadrons in Marine Corps history, a testament to their family’s dedication to national service.- My values are simple. They were forged growing up here in Pennsylvania and strengthened by over 20 years in the Marine Corps. They are to put family first, build community, work hard – and to say what you mean and do what you say. This campaign is about bringing those values to Congress to protect and expand freedom for South Central Pennsylvania families. I believe we agree on much more than divides us, and that our common commitment to basic freedoms can bring communities together and move our country forward.
- 1. Freedom from the worries and dangers of living paycheck-to-paycheck, and the freedom to give our children the opportunity for a better life than our own. 2. The freedom to make decisions about our own bodies. 3. The freedom to feel safe in our communities and schools.
- 4. Political freedom, which means defending our democracy so that nobody can ever throw away our votes here in Pennsylvania based on a web of lies. When politicians try to overturn the results of a free and fair election, that’s an attack on the very foundation of America. I won’t let that attack be successful on my watch.
Note: Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it.
Campaign finance summary
Note: The finance data shown here comes from the disclosures required of candidates and parties. Depending on the election or state, this may represent only a portion of all the funds spent on their behalf. Satellite spending groups may or may not have expended funds related to the candidate or politician on whose page you are reading this disclaimer. Campaign finance data from elections may be incomplete. For elections to federal offices, complete data can be found at the FEC website. Click here for more on federal campaign finance law and here for more on state campaign finance law.
See also
2024 Elections
External links
|
Candidate U.S. House Pennsylvania District 10 |
Personal |
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on October 21, 2023
