Mustello reelected to 11th District of the state House of Representatives in landslide vote
Marci Mustello, the incumbent candidate for the 11th District of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, won reelection against Libertarian challenger and Butler County business owner Justin Konchar, by a landslide.
The unofficial results of the countywide count show that Mustello earned 29,253 votes, or 86.13% of the vote, to Konchar’s 4,339, or 12.78% of the vote.
Mustello said she ran her campaign this year in a similar way to her previous campaigns, while keeping her doors open to constituents.
“I worked every day. I worked with the people; I kept my office open whenever they needed something,” she said. “It's really an honor to have the trust of the 11th District.”
Mustello won the seat in 2019 after defeating Democratic candidate Samuel Doctor in a special election. She won subsequent elections in 2020 and 2022, the latter unopposed.
Konchar, a Libertarian candidate, was entering the political sphere for the first time. A resident of Butler Township, Konchar is the owner of the tabletop board game maker Dungeons & Vanners.
To achieve his aim of revitalizing the area’s economy, he pitched policies such as a “tiny home protection act,” which would eliminate or reduce minimum lot size and square footage requirements for homeowners, and a “home business act” that would allow residents to set up businesses in residential zones as long as they live on the property.
Other key planks of Konchar’s platform included decriminalizing marijuana and abolishing the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board.
On Tuesday, Mustello reiterated some of her key policy positions, which mainly included continued work on her committees to reduce spending in the state.
“Some of the policies I would like to work on, No. 1 reining in spending with the appropriations committee,” Mustello said. “What we do spend, making sure that money is put to good use and I could bring it back, that we can have economic development and locations ready to go when employers are looking.”
The state House’s 11th District includes the southeastern portion of Butler County, namely Butler, Chicora, East Butler and Saxonburg, and the townships of Buffalo, Butler, Clearfield, Clinton, Donegal, Jefferson, Oakland, Summit and Winfield.
