Rep. Jack Rader of Jackson Township, who has represented the 176th Legislative District in the state House of Representatives in Monroe County since 2015, soared to victory in yesterday’s general election, winning a rematch with the opponent he faced in 2022.

Rader tallied 21,212 votes to easily outdistance Democrat Hope Christman, a hospice social worker who received 12,402 votes. The numbers are unofficial until the county’s election board certifies them at a later date.

The win sends Rader back to Harrisburg for his sixth two-year term. Before winning the 2014 election, he served 28 years on the Jackson Township Board of Supervisors, including 20 years as its chairman. For more than three decades, he was the manager and vice president of Mountain Springs Resort, Reeders. a company that has been owned by his family for more than a half-century.

Rader defeated Christman and Libertarian Autumn Pangia two years ago, when 14,036 voters in the district supported him. Christman and Pangia tallied 9,024 and 1,237, respectively, in that election.

The district includes parts of Monroe County, including the townships of Chestnuthill, Eldred, Hamilton, Jackson, Polk, Ross, Tobyhanna and Tunkhannock.