Pennsylvania Governor Wins Nomination

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania Gov. Robert P. Casey swept past a primary challenger who had attacked his opposition to abortion and captured the Democratic nomination Tuesday for a second term.

With 93% of the precincts reporting, Casey, a Democrat who signed a tough anti-abortion law in November, had 574,248 votes, or 77%, to lawyer Philip S. Berg’s 166,990 votes, or 23%.

Casey called his victory “a strong endorsement by the Democratic voters of this state of our record of the last four years. . . . They support that agenda.”

In the Republican race for the gubernatorial nomination, Auditor General Barbara Hafer, an abortion rights advocate, defeated abortion foe Marguerite Luksik. Hafer, who carried the state GOP endorsement, received 54% of the vote to Luksik’s 46%.