2005 Lehigh County Executive election

2005 Lehigh County Executive election
November 8, 2005
 
Nominee Don Cunningham Jane Ervin
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 33,263 20,721
Percentage 61.60% 38.37%
County Executive before election

Jane Ervin
Republican

Elected County Executive

Don Cunningham
Democratic

The 2005 Lehigh County Executive election was held on November 8, 2005. Incumbent Republican County Executive Jane Ervin ran for re-election to a second term. She narrowly defeated engineer Kevin Ryan in the Republican primary, winning 53-47 percent, and advanced to the general election, where she was opposed by former Bethlehem Mayor Don Cunningham, the Democratic nominee. Cunningham defeated Ervin in a landslide, winning 62 percent of the vote to Ervin's 38 percent, largely over voter frustration at a 70 percent property tax hike, enabling him to become the first Democratic County Executive in county history.

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