What the Heck Happened?

I was surprised by some of the judicial race results last night, especially by the poor showing for SEPA candidates. Apparently the western areas just got the vote out better. From Capitol Ideas:

Writing for Capitolwire this morning, our colleague Pete DeCoursey gives it up for western voters, who turned out in droves yesterday. According to DeCoursey, eight of 12 statewide judicial candidates this year will be from Allegheny County. And the secret to that success lies in the numbers: In Allegheny, 83,000 Democrats and 43,000 Republicans voted for Supreme Court. In Philadelphia, which has 300,000 more people and more than 100,000 more voters, only 69,000 Democrats voted for Supreme Court and about 11,000 Republicans. In higher-turnout Montgomery County, only 32,000 Republicans voted in the contested GOP Supreme Court race, DeCoursey wrote.