Carbon County voters voted heavily for Republican candidates in Tuesday’s General Election balloting, returning state Rep. Doyle Heffley to Harrisburg for another two-year term as the representative of the 122nd Legislative District. Meanwhile, county voters favored the GOP candidates for U.S. Senator, PA Governor and U.S. House of Representatives, although in each of those three races returns to dart indicate the Republican candidates lost their races.

Heffley, who first took office in 2010 after the retirement of longtime legislator, Speaker of the House Keith R. McCall, won by a landslide margin.

He defeated newcomer Richard Kost of Palmerton by a margin of 16,508 to 4,585.

In the race for U.S. Senator, Carbon voters gave the advantage to Republican Mehmet Oz over Democratic Lt. Governor John Fetterman. Oz tallied 14,356 votes in the county while Fetterman had 6,335.

It was a close race.

The Pennsylvania Department of State website has Fetterman with 2,501,681 votes and Oz trailing that total with 2,364,983. As of this morning, several news outlets have projected Fetterman as the winner of the six-year term to succeed retiring Sen. Pat Toomey, a Republican, meaning Pennsylvania flipped its representation to Democratic.

In the governor’s race, although Carbon favored Sen. Doug Mastriano, the statewide race was not even close, with PA Attorney General Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, winning by over 600,000 unofficial votes.

Carbon favored Mastriano by a margin of 13,772 to 7,200, but across the commonwealth Shapiro garnered 2,767,209 votes, far ahead of the senator’s 2,131,665.

With Carbon County being in the 7th Congressional District, county voters participated in balloting with voters in Lehigh, Northampoton and parts of Monroe County, and followed suit by favoring the GOP candidate, Lisa Scheller, the owner of Silberline Manufacturing Company in Hometown, over incumbent Democrat Susan Wild.

Scheller tallied 15,377 votes in the county while Wild receiver 5,856. However, the state department shows Wild winning the seat by a margin of 149,588 to 144,875.

Wild outran Scheller in Lehigh County, 72,795 to 61,987, and Northampton County, 65,929 to 62,550, while Scheller had an advantage of 3,526 to 1,736 in Monroe balloting.