HARRISBURG — A Republican justice is keeping her seat on Pennsylvania’s highest court, earning a 10-year term-term.

Justice Sallie Mundy held off Allegheny County Judge Dwayne Woodruff on Tuesday. In Butler County, Republican Mundy got more than 67 percent of the votes for justice of the Supreme Court with 18,359 votes, according to unofficial results from the county Bureau of Elections. Democrat Woodruff got 8,910 votes in the county.

Three hours after the polls closed, results were too close to call in contested judicial races for state Superior and Commonwealth courts.

In Butler County, all four Republican candidates for Superior Court judge garnered more votes than the four Democrats. Mary Murray led the group with 16,762 votes according to unofficial results; Craig Stedman had 16,252; Emil Giordano had 15,187; and Wade Kagarise had 14,944. For the Democrats, Debbie Kunselman had 10,670 votes; Maria Mclaughlin got 10,320; Carolyn Nichols got 8,464; and Geoff Moulton got 7,523. Green Party candidate got Jules Mermelstein got 1,811 votes in the county.

In the race for two Commonwealth Court judge seats, Republican Christine Fizzano Cannon got 17,550 votes in Butler County, according to unofficial results. Republican Paul Lalley got 16,687 votes and Democrats Ellen Ceisler, 8,540, and Irene Clark, 8,655, came in third and fourth in Butler County.

The constitutional amendment that Pennsylvania voters approved Tuesday could eventually lead to reductions in the state’s heavy dependence on property taxes, but it is only a tiny step in that direction. In Butler County, 13,817 people, or 52.21 percent, voted in favor of the proposed constitutional amendment and 12,648, 47.79 percent, voted against it.